Cryospheric Remote Sensing Laboratory
General Info
Service/Purpose
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.
CRSRF provides the only Ku-/X-band scatterometer facility of its kind in North America. 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 also base for storing and staging of 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.
Location
University of Waterloo
Facility Lead
Claude Duguay
Primary Contacts
| Name | Role | Contact Information |
| Claude Duguay | Facility Lead and Primary Contact | Email: crduguay@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 43610 |
Fee for Service
Deployable Systems
| Ref | Item | Deployed At | Unit | Internal Rate * | External Rate ** | Commercial Rate *** |
| CRSL-DS-1 | UAV – eBee with three sensors (colour, multispectral and
thermal) | Used at all field sites | per day | $300 | $345 | $420 |
| CRSL-DS-2 | UAV – DJI Matrice 600 Pro with Headwall hyperspectral sensor | Used at all field sites | per day | $500 | $575 | $700 |
| CRSL-DS-3 | UAV – DJI Matrice 600 Pro with FLIR thermal sensor | Used at all field sites | per day | $300 | $345 | $420 |
| CRSL-DS-4 | G10 GNSS Rover Kit with Smart Antenna, (L1-L2-L5, RTK)
GSM/GPRS, UHF | Used at all field sites | per day | $100 | $115 | $140 |
| CRSL-DS-5 | OpenROV underwater drone with camera and temperature
sensor | Used at all field sites | per day | $200 | $230 | $280 |
| CRSL-DS-6 | HOBO TidbiT Temperature Data Logger - Over 100 of these on three strings for water temperature measurements | Used at all field sites | per day per logger | $10 | $12 | $14 |
| CRSL-DS-7 | ProSensing field-deployable radar Ku and X-band systems | Used at all field sites | per day per radar system | $1,000 | $1,150 | $1,400 |
| CRSL-DS-8 | Campbell meteorological station with temperature, RH, wind,
radiation, snow depth, camera and datalogger | Installed on shore of Malcolm Ramsay Lake near Churchill, Manitoba | per day | $200 | $230 | $280 |
| CRSL-DS-9 | SnowHydro Magna Probes (two snow depth probes with GPS
and datalogger) | Used at all field sites | per day per probe | $150 | $173 | $210 |
| CRSL-DS-10 | Kovacs ice drilling and coring equipment | Used at all field sites | per day | $200 | $230 | $280 |
