Microwave Systems Engineering
 
 
The Microwave Systems Engineering Group within the Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL) at the University of Massachusetts works on the design, development, and deployment of microwave systems for environmental applications.
We are involved in the detailed design of microwave systems, the statistical process of detection and estimation of geophysical parameters, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Interferometric SAR (InSAR).
Specific projects currently underway are
  1.  AMFR:  Triple-frequency radar for cloud/precipitation research
  2.  NASA Ku- and Ka-band two-channel precision downconverter for interferometric radar applications
  3.  NASA Terrestrial Ecology research on the retrieval of vegetation vertical profiles
 
 
Photos above, going clockwise, are:
  1. i)the UMASS triple-frequency radar,
  2. ii)two-channel Ku-band interferometric downconverter,
  3. iii) a tall tree in the Costa Rican forest,
  4. iv) test setup for high precision microwave measurements,
  5. v)optical satellite view of the Conneticut river ( google), and
  6. vi) L-band SAR image (JAXA: ALOS/PALSAR) of the same.
What We Do