Ophir uses extensive lidar expertise to meet our customers’ challenging, remote-sensing needs and to deliver value-added solutions.  Our customers need lidar solutions when the sensor environment is tough, the risk is high and the sensor size has to be small!  We specialize in optical, remote sensing for characterizing the atmosphere for military and commercial airborne and ground-based applications.

• Optical air data
• Contrail detection
• Turbulence detection
• Wind profiling
• Imaging through foliage
• Vegetation canopy lidar

Our incoherent laser technology is the next big step in applications ranging from air data systems and turbulence detection. 

Ophir is a subcontractor to three major U.S. aerospace corporations with production units currently flying. Avionics packages flying on high-performance military aircraft have been taken from conception to flight qualification.

Our certifications include AS9100B and ISO 9001:2000 (aerospace manufacturing) and military flight qualifications; we are a small business striving to meet our customers' needs.