What We Offer

Optical Laboratory The dark optical laboratory calibrates and characterizes all of the facility’s instruments, ensuring measurements are traceable, calibrated, and have quantifiable uncertainty. This ensures your measurements are comparible across time and space. FSF can also calibrate instruments owned by our loan users. For more information, see our Optical Laboratory Suite.

Field Spectrometers The facility houses numerous hyperspectral spectroradiometers which measure wavelengths from 350-2500 nm across the electromagnetic spectrum. This includes the ultraviolet, visible, near- and shortwave regions, providing essential information in multidisciplinary fields of science. Example fields include ecology (e.g. vegetation health), cryosphere studies (e.g. sea ice reflectance), geology (e.g. materials detection), and wider earth observation (e.g. ground based validation of satellites).

UAVs and Sensors FSF has multispectral cameras, thermal and RGB imagers, as well as two hyperspectral imagers. These can all be attached to unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for aerial surveying. If you require assistance choosing the right instrument, the facility can advise on which sensor is appropriate for your purpose.

Atmospheric Monitoring The spectral atmospheric suite includes instrumentation to measure atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and gaseous pollutants. This suite can also measure aerosol optical depth, applicable to validating satellite measurements for your upcoming missions.

Solar Induced Fluorescence This suite measures solar induced fluorescence (SIF), an increasingly prevalent technique which is essential to measuring vegetation health. This has direct implications to estimating photosynthesis rates and accurate crop yields. The SIF suite includes both UAV and ground based instrumentation.

Bio-Optical Underwater The bio-optical underwater suite contains instruments which are designed to operate underwater. They are hyperspectral imagers that operate in the UV to visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum, aiming to understand how light interacts with water. Other uses for this suite are ocean color measurements to study marine vegetation, as well as water quality improvement schemes.

For more information on our instrument suites, see our Instruments page.