Remote Sensing Instruments - Disadvantages:

• Expensive to build and operate!!!!
• Measurement uncertainty can be large
• resolution is often coarse
  • 88D pulse volume is over 1.5 km wide at 100 km range from radar
  • satellites
• Data interpretation can be difficult
  • need to understand theoretically how the instrument is making the measurements
  • need to understand measurement uncertainties
  • need to have some knowledge of the phenomena you are sampling