Welcome to Hovemere LTD
Hovemere, established in 1974, is a world leader in the development of high-performance opto-electronic systems capable of measuring atmospheric parameters. These include temperature, ozone densities and wind speed and direction, all of which contribute to studies of climate change.
Hovemere has traditionally worked alongside the scientific community, involving itself in research and the development of novel instrumentation. Recent developments include products that are well suited to commercial applications such as improving Wind Farm efficiency. We are also working on instrumentation that can monitor and track gaseous and particle pollution emissions.
Hovemere has access to a unique set of high-performance ground-based facilities. These facilities include a Mobile Doppler Wind Lidar System (wind speed and direction) and a Transportable Lidar System capable of measuring atmospheric temperature, density, and the concentrations of aerosol, ozone and water vapour.
Our extensive product range includes lidar systems and capacitance stabilised etalons.
- Instrument Support Engineer
- Instrument Technician
- Optical Engineer
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Hovemere is responsible for the design and fabrication of the Mercury Sodium Atmosphere Spectral
Imager (MSASI), under contract from University of Tokyo and JAXA. MSASI will be flown on the
Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter of the joint ESA / JAXA Bepi-Colombo Mission to Planet Mercury,
to be launched in 2013. MSASI will measure the sodium emissions of the Mercury atmosphere,
studying the generation mechanisms for sodium at the surface, the evolution within the atmosphere
(or exosphere), and ultimate loss to interplanetary space.
Hovemere is currently building the High Resolution Spectral Analyser for the Swedish Solar
Telescope at La Palma, Canary Islands. This high-performance optical system will resolve magnetic
fields and velocity distributions within the solar photosphere, limited only by the resolution of the 1
metre aperture SST.
At the ALOMAR Observatory in Northern Norway, Hovemere developed and demonstrated the
capability to make daytime measurements of the Atmosphere with the Doppler Wind and
Temperature Sensor, the Rayleigh / Mie / Raman Lidar, and also with the Ozone Lidar System.
Many of our instruments have been space qualified and this is reflected in our worldwide client base,
which includes NASA, ESA and JAXA. Our instruments exploit a combination of technologies such
as state of the art opto-electronics and specialised custom software. We are currently developing, in
collaboration with European partners, airborne systems for measuring the true air speed and direction
of a high-performance aircraft, and for the detection of Clear Air Turbulence and Wake Vortex.
