Incorporated in 1990 as Analytical Spectral Devices, Inc., ASD is a privately held company based in Boulder, Colorado. The company was established to address a fundamental need of earth science researchers for a robust, high-performance, portable instrument that could be used in field work. Responding to this need, two renowned remote sensing scientists, Dr. Alexander F. H. Goetz, Director of the Center for the Study of Earth from Space (CSES), and Dr. Brian Curtiss, a senior scientist at CSES, designed and produced the Personal Spectrometer II (PSII), the world’s first truly portable, rugged, research-grade spectroradiometer.
The PSII was quickly embraced by fellow scientists around the world as a practical and necessary tool to do their work. Subsequent generations of portable field instruments, trademarked under the name FieldSpec® , earned ASD world-wide recognition as the number one portable instrumentation supplier for remote sensing scientists and field researchers. Today, the FieldSpec 3 and FieldSpec HandHeld instrument families provide researchers with a complete suite of instruments for all of their field work needs.
ASD successfully expanded beyond its origins in the scientific markets, into industrial manufacturing markets, by providing instrumentation solutions for the real-time measurement of non-homogenous materials in manufacturing and quality control environments. ASD’s industrial instrument lines now include QualitySpec® for on-line and near-line process control, LabSpec® for material inspection and identification in the field and lab, RxSpec® for pharmaceutical validation, TerraSpec® for mining exploration, and AgriSpec® for vegetation and soil analysis.
ASD’s legacy is one of innovation and leadership in addressing customers’ needs—providing the latest technologies combined with the highest standards of quality and service. We continue to provide customers with value enhancing solutions to their materials measurement needs by offering the following resources:
Evidence of our success can be seen in the timeline of major milestones in ASD’s history.
"Seventh Annual Program in Innovative Remote Sensing Academic Research Opens Call for Submissions" in Vector1media.com
April 26, 2012
ASD Inc., a global leader in high-performance analytical instrumentation and materials analysis solutions, is once again accepting registrations for the Alexander Goetz Instrument Support Program for the calendar year 2013.
"Seventh Annual Program in Innovative Remote Sensing Academic Research Opens Call for Submissions" in spectroscopyNOW.com
April 24, 2012
ASD Inc., a global leader in high-performance analytical instrumentation and materials analysis solutions, is once again accepting registrations for the Alexander Goetz Instrument Support Program for the calendar year 2013. Student researchers from all disciplines involving remote sensing and field spectroscopy are welcome to register for ASD's seventh annual academic research program.
Seventh Annual Program in Innovative Remote Sensing Academic Research Opens Call for Submissions
April 24, 2012
2013 Alexander Goetz Instrument Support Program Sponsored by ASD Inc. Seeks Unique Remote ...
"Explore, discover and analyse: the best mineral testing tools" in mining-technology.com
April 05, 2012
With the Earth's remaining mineral deposits becoming scarce and more complex, the right sampling tools are essential. Mining Technology rounds-up some of the mining industry's most innovative technologies for finding deposits and judging their viability.
ASD Announces LabSpec 4 Line of Portable Laboratory Instrumentation
March 12, 2012
New line of advanced analytical instrumentation provides updated spectrometer
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