BEST

PRACO — Profiling Radiometer for Atmospheric and Cloud Observation

Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology (BEST) is developing several new radiometers for environmental monitoring: a Profiling Radiometer for Atmospheric and Cloud Observation PRACO, a Marine Profiling Radiometer MPR, and an Autonomous Profiling Radiometer. These instruments use novel design approaches that aim to remove the user completely from supervision and allow all-weather operation, data collection, and retrievals.
In cooperation with the Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) we are working on a design of a Hyperspectral Microwave Sensor.

Our company, Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, has a very experienced staff involved in the area of microwave remote sensing, and particularly in microwave radiometer development, for decades. We have developed and operated instrumentation either on ground or on a flying machine, or on a ship. We build microwave radiometers in every radiometric band practical for use in terrestrial observation. If there is a radiometer that can be designed, developed, and made practical, we can build it.

Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology was founded in 2006 with the goal of producing radiometers that are practical, user friendly, reliable, and easy to use. The founders of BEST have decades of experience working in various field applications of passive microwave remote sensing. Ours is a comprehensive experience: from theoretical channels selections, to radiometer hardware design, assembly, control and data acquisition software, field deployment, operations, calibrations, and data analysis. We believe these sensors, the radiometers, can be and should be designed to be Reliable, Autonomous, Integrated, Simple, Easy to use, and Sturdy. In our designs, we strive for RAISES Radiometers. We use innovative approaches to radiometer receiver designs, modes of operation, environmental protection, calibration, and data retrievals, while striving to make it easy for our customer by removing him/her from instrument supervision and minimizing maintenance requirements. Our goal is to provide customers with the reliable measurements of environmental variables they desire while aiming for an economical instrument, not only with respect to initial costs, but also to operational expenses.

150 GHz Dual Polarization, Two Channels Radiometer

..the smallest on the market, has two channels in the atmospheric window between the 118 GHz oxygen absorption line and the 183 GHz water vapor absorption line..

Integrated 183 GHz Dual Polarization, Five Channels Radiometer

..the smallest on the market, has five channels on the upper wing of the 183.31 GHz water vapor absorption line...

PRACO
Profiling Radiometer for Atmospheric and Cloud Observation

..world’s smallest microwave radiometer, yet it covers all of the important sounding bands in the microwave spectrum bellow 200 GHz..

Integrated 183 GHz Radiometer Receiver

..the smallest on the market, very capable, with very low power consumption..

Colibri A/D Converter

..board CADC is a universal carrier a Toradex Colibri module that allows its operation without any additional supporting hardware as a data acquisition unit..

Marine Profiling Radiometer

..provide water vapor and temperature profiles and communicate the data in a user-specified format to a remote base terminal..

Microwave Radiometer Systems

Polarimetric Scanning Radiometer System

Ground-based Scanning Radiometer

Profiling Microwave Radiometers

..build for different water vapor and oxygen absorption lines, thus allowing sensing under various environmental conditions..

Antennas and Microwave Components

..antennas, mixers, local oscillators, low noise amplifiers, receiver subassembly..

Atmospheric Window Microwave Radiometers

..microwave radiometers with channels in atmospheric windows, suitable for observation of surface parameters and also atmospheric phenomena such as rain, cloud particles..

Projects

..our current projects..

Publish or Perish

..our publications and presentations..

Data

..data, data, data..