Survey Instrumentation


Recently Developed Technology

Organizations and institutions such as the National Laboratories continuously develop specialized radiation detection systems and new approaches to measuring radioactivity.  The following links can be used to find out more about recent developments. 

Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University:

U.S. DOE Environmental Measurements Laboratory

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory:

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:

Los Alamos National Laboratory:

The Department of Energy Environmental Management’s Office of Science & Technology supports the Characterization, Monitoring and Sensor Technology program. This program develops technologies that are safer, faster, less costly, more efficacious, and less environmentally invasive than previously used approaches.  Many of these technologies relate to innovative field measurements of contaminants.

The Hemispheric Center for Environmental Technology (HCET) at Florida International University (FIU) maintains a suite of internet-enabled information system, databases, and electronic libraries that includes information on characterization technologies.  A number of these systems may be accessed at the Gateway to Environmental Technology (GET) Internet website. The Technical Information System (TIS) Database has 1841 technologies in total of which 210 are devoted to characterization.   For the Multimedia Information System (MIS) there are 33 technologies devoted to characterization.