Centre for Atmospheric & Instrumentation Research
Bayfordbury Remote Sensing Observatory
The observatory is located at 51.7748°N, 0.0948°W (see map) at a rural, relatively unpolluted site near Hertford, 30 km north of the centre of London.
Remote sensing instrumentation currently installed at the Observatory includes a Cimel CE 370-2
micropulse lidar on a scanning mount,
a night-time all-sky camera,
and a Cimel CE-318 automatic sun photometer - with data processed and curated by the NASA
AERONET network
(see video).
In the near future two polarimeters will be installed. The first will be an infra-red spectropolarimeter, with a view angle of 60°. The second, an ultra-sensitive sun polarimeter, a portable version of the PlanetPol polarimeter, capable of measuring fractional polarization down to one part per million. PlanetPol previously detected the alignment of atmospheric dust.
Current weather data for the site can be found here.
The Remote Sensing Observatory is co-located with the Astronomy Observatory, operated by the School of Physics Astronomy and Mathematics, which includes several telescopes equipped with CCD cameras and/or spectrographs and instruments for solar observations, such as a coelostat.
Contact
Dr Joseph Z. Ulanowski
CAIR
University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB
UK
T: +44 (0) 1707 284604
F: +44 (0) 1707 284185
E: z.ulanowski 
herts.ac.uk