Two cloud-free high resolution remotely sensed images of flooding 
in the US Midwest have been made available for anonymous FTP on 
climate.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.46.16) in directory pub/gumley.  
The images are stored in GIF and JPEG format.

The images were acquired on July 29, 1993 by the MODIS Airborne 
Simulator (MAS), a scanning visible/near-infrared/infrared 
spectrometer that flies on a NASA ER-2 aircraft.  The direction of 
flight is from right to left.  Nadir is along a line across the 
center of the image.  The images have been resampled so that the 
spacing between the center of each pixel is 64 meters in the along 
track and cross track directions.  In each image the vertical 
distance shown is 37 kilometers.  The image of St. Louis is 
64 kilometers wide.  The image of Kansas City is 46 kilometers 
wide.  Both images are oriented approximately East-West.

The images were prepared by Liam Gumley (Climate and Radiation 
Branch) and Michael King (Earth Sciences Directorate), NASA 
Goddard Space Flight Center.  The NASA ER-2 is provided by NASA 
Ames Research Center.

Please direct any correspondence to gumley@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov