University of Waterloo
Cryospheric Remote Sensing Laboratory
The Cryospheric Remote Sensing Research Facility (CRSRF) was established in 2009 by Professors Claude Duguay and Richard Kelly with funding obtained from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.
For field equipment visit the CRSRF website
CRSRF provides a Ku-/X-band scatterometer facility. The infrastructure has previously been used in support of the CoReH2O satellite mission proposed to the European Space Agency Polarimetric ground-based scatterometer systems operating at Ku and X-band frequencies provides data that deepen our understanding of active microwave interactions with snow and ice properties. The lab is also a base for storing and staging a suite of radiation and energy balance instruments, automatic ice profiler and snow depth systems as well as more traditional snow and ice field instruments such as snow tubes, ice corers and augers, density profilers and other standard snow survey techniques.
