Ground-based & Airborne Instrument Development: Science & Technology | 2021-2022

Solar tracker coupled to measuring equipment
Follow the Sun ... but do it small scale
It is time now to retire the first-generation trackers. A second-generation mini solar tracker is ready to take over. It is much more compact and better equipped to withstand the harsh weather conditions it will have to operate in.
NO2 camera on the foreground measures NO2 in smoke plumes in the back.
NO2 camera, a combination of remote sensing and imaging
The original instrumental concept was optimized for observing NO2 in industrial smoke plumes or above urban areas. The interest in such technology is now rising in the air quality community, and we will demonstrate the added capabilities of this innovative instrument.
SWING in wingpod of FUB motorglider
Regular airborne mapping of NO2 above Berlin and Bucharest
BIRA-IASB equipped research aircraft in Germany and Romania with several versions of the in-house developed imaging instrument SWING to produce regular mappings of NO2.