MicroRad

MicroRad is an international specialistic conference on the topic of microwave radiometry for remote sensing of the environment and global satellite Earth monitoring. It is the most important specialist meeting on the subject and represents a forum where over 200 scientists from all over the world report their most recent results. This discipline has recently had a strong boost due to its characteristics of allowing a global and continuous observation of our planet. This is extremely important for improving our knowledge of the Earth system and in particular for the study of geophysical processes such as desertification and ice melting which are important indices for estimating climate variations, but also for monitoring conditions of natural risk and anthropic.

The microwave radiometry community presents at this meeting new research results and instrument designs in the field of remote sensing of land, ocean and atmosphere. Main topics are the following:

• Theory of microwave radiometry

• Inversion of radiometric data

• Radiometric observations of the atmosphere

• Polarimetric radiometry and applications

• Novel Radiometric imaging systems

• Observation from advanced satellite systems 

• Potential new applications for climate and global change

• New technological development

• Anticipated radiometric missions

The next MicroRad Symposium will be held in Alexandria (VA) from 8 to 11 April 2024