The service is related to access to WOS facilities for tailored testing of new technologies and/or instrumentation provided by the users depending on their needs and requests.
The service comprises optoelectronic engineering and expert knowledge on building instruments for data collection and signal analysis. WOS offers the co-development of instruments and gives the possibility of multifaced testing and tailored application of novel technologies.
WOS tenders access for users to the well-equipped laboratories, giving the possibility of measurement conduction and/or instrumentation testing in a pre-defined, well-controlled atmosphere (e.g. air conditioning, additional heating, possibility of opening the roof for remote sensing applications).
WOS facility comprises 3 labs: Remote Sensing Laboratory, Radiation Transfer Laboratory, and Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. The user can get access to all of them, depending on their needs.
The access includes the possibility to mount new devices to existing instrumentation to test and assess its capabilities and added value it provides. Expert knowledge provided by the WOS team aims at enhancing the user's instrumentation/technologies and thorough fully testing/optimizing technological processes thanks to intensive experiments done for the user (in his/her presence or not). This includes comparison device-to-device and data-to-data with instruments of WOS during simultaneous collocated measurements. Thus, new applications of tested technology might be found/proposed.
Realization of the access includes technical and engineering assessment of WOS staff as well as expertise of experienced scientists to analyse obtained results. WOS is offering a comparison of newly captured data with existing measurements provided by different ACTRIS active and passive instruments available onsite, which are ESA MObile RAman Lidar (EMORAL), Aerosol Depolarization Raman PollyXT lidar (ADR PollyXT), Near-range Raman Lidar (NARLa), sunphotometer CIMEL, Pandora S2.
The service includes technical support with the measurement device installation as well as advice on the issue of transportation of measuring equipment.
Thanks to experience in previous work with the private sector WOS staff is aware of confidentiality agreements, thus able to avoid conflict of interests, and it is open to signing respective agreements.
TIME CONSTRAINTS: The remote and physical access of the external users at the WOS facility must be discussed and planned with the PI of WOS and the TNA coordinators. External users are allowed to access WOS observatory only under WOS personnel supervision, prior to their registration in the Visitor System. The user must go via HPS training prior to accessing the WOS facility.
