Collection of the program may be used for construction of various applied program complexes. For example, the program complex for the calculation of backscattering coefficient and radiobrightness temperature of ice fields was created that way. An important direction of the laboratory works is the determination of antenna parameters influence on obtained microwave measurement results. Reconstruction technique of radio-brightness temperature based on the antenna temperature values and antenna parameters has been worked out. Prospective direction of the laboratory activities is application of passive and active locations at the same time in one remote sensing system.
Passive location gives average signal from a large area.
Active one gives a possibility to display small details. Thus, passive and active remote sensing data complement each other. These results are the base for forming maps of condition and property modification of land and water surfaces. Long experience in the field of remote sensing data processing and interpretation, in the sphere of investigation of the correlation between radiation characteristics and objects physical parameters, as well as created microwave equipment gives the possibility both to make applied measurements and to develop microwave remote sensing theory. The major task of the laboratory is to improve microwave equipment and processing techniques of remote sensing data.