Main facilities available in MWRSG Laboratory

• 5 portable microwaves radiometers

Use: Microwave emission measurement in different environments and from different platforms (aircraft, hydraulic boom, metallic frame)

Characteristics: set of 5 microwave radiometers at 1.4, 10, 6.8, 19 e 37 GHz for environment monitoring

• Thermal infrared radiometers

Use: Thermal emission measurements in in different environments and from different platforms (aircraft, hydraulic boom, metallic frame)

Characteristics: thermal infrared radiometers at 8-14 μm

• 1 TDR and 1 FDR system for soil moisture content measurements in the field

Use: Non-destructive measurement of dielectric constant and volumetric soil moisture content in the field

Characteristics: Time Domain Reflectometry Probes and Frequency Domain Reflectomery at around 1 GHz

• 1 pressure chamber for the measurement of leaf water potential
• 1 needle profilometer for the measurement of soil surface roughness
• Probes for the measurement of air, soil and snow temperature
• 1 probe for snow dielectric constant measurements
• 1 laboratory of basic electronics
• 1 industrial freezer for experiments on media at low temperatures
• Commercial and in-house softwares dedicated to the processing of SAR images and radiometric data