Remote sensing - moving platform | AMOF

X-band Mobile Weather Radar

Grant Forster — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:48:40 +0000

The mobile radar operates at X-band (9.375 GHz, 3cm) and has Doppler and dual-polarisation capability. The radar measures areal precipitation, radial winds and polarisation parameters. It can also detect clear-air echoes at close range from insects.

Lidar Wind Profiler

Barbara Brooks — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 15:11:32 +0000

A laser-based wind profiler device to measure wind speed and wind direction profiles between 80m and 4Km with a resolution of 30m.

Ka-band Mobile Cloud Radar

Fallen Leaf — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:34:37 +0000

Trailer-mounted mobile Doppler cloud radar with scanning 1.0m antenna operating at 35.1 GHz. It uses linear polarisation on transmit and receives co- and cross-polarised signals simultaneously.

Micro Rain Radar

Fallen Leaf — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:34:37 +0000

The MRR Micro Rain Radar is a compact 24 GHz FM-CW-radar for the measurement of profiles of drop size distributions and – derived from this – rain rates, liquid water content and characteristic falling velocity resolved into 30 range gates.

HATPRO Radiometer

Fallen Leaf — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:34:29 +0000

The HATPRO instrument is a stand-alone system for automated weather-station use under nearly all environmental conditions. Full atmospheric profiles are derived, retrieved data as well as raw data are stored. A variety of retrieval algorithms (custom designed or global standard algorithms) can be selected.

Doppler Aerosol Lidar

Fallen Leaf — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:34:29 +0000

This is a 1.55 μm eye-safe (Class 1M) scanning micro pulsed LiDAR providing profiles of aerosol backscatter coefficient (β) in units of m^-1sr^-1and radial velocity in ms^-1 at user specified azimuth and elevation angles.

Cimel Sun Photometer

Fallen Leaf — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:34:21 +0000

A multi-channel, automatic sun-and-sky scanning radiometer that measures the direct solar irradiance and sky radiance at the Earth’s surface.

Ceilometer

Fallen Leaf — Thu, 30 May 2019 11:57:40 +0000

The CS135 LIDAR Ceilometer measures cloud height and vertical visibility for meteorological and aviation applications. Using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) technology, the instrument transmits fast, low-power laser pulses into the atmosphere and detects back-scattered returns from clouds and aerosols above the instrument.