Remote Sensing Technologies

This research focus area involves knowledge, capabilities, and practices related to the reasearch, design, development, characterization, and application of active and passive remote sensing and detector systems. Included in this research area are advanced flight-qualified laser systems, optical components, microwave systems, radiometric sensors, and other remote sensing instruments as well as associated component subsystems, detectors, calibration systems, and data acquisition systems. Researchers in this field may posses a knowledge of, and capability to perform, research and development of advanced detectors and detector systems covering a wide spectral range to include UV, visible, IR, and microwave. In addition, researchers may have a broad understanding of specialty areas such as Electro-optical, Imaging, Laser, Lidar or Optics technologies. Lastly, remote sensing technologies research could furthermore contain the design, development, test, characterization, and integration of detectors and detector systems into a variety of applications with an emphasis on remote sensing systems.