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EISCAT
EISCAT (European Incoherent Scatter AB, formerly EISCAT Scientific Association) is a non-profit scientific research organisation that operates three incoherent scatter radar systems in Northern Scandinavia and Svalbard, as well as an ionospheric heating and short-wave radar facility.
The facilities are used to study the interaction between the Sun and the Earth as revealed by disturbances in the ionosphere and magnetosphere.
The EISCAT Scientific Association exists to provide scientists with access to incoherent scatter radar facilities of the highest technical standard.
The construction of EISCAT's new generation of incoherent radar sites, EISCAT 3D, started in November 2022.
The first stage of the new system will consist of three radar sites, functioning together, just as the old mainland system has. Transmitter upgrades and more sites will be added to the system in the future.
Instead of parabolic dishes, as used by the old system, EISCAT 3D is a multistatic radar composed of three phased-array antenna fields. Many small antennas working together as one. Each field will have between 5 000 - 10 000 crossed dipole antenna mounted on top of a ground plane 70 meters in diameter.
The core site of EISCAT 3D is located just outside Skibotn, Norway. The facility will have 109 hexagonal antenna units as its main antenna, and 10 antenna units spread out around the main site. On top of the antenna units the dipole antennas are mounted. The Skibotn facility will have 10 000 of these small antennas. The Skibotn facility will act both as a transceiver and receiver of the EISCAT 3D system.
Two receiver sites are located in Karesuvando, Finland and Kaiseniemi, Sweden. The facilities consist of 54 and 55 antenna units with approximately 5 000 dipole antennas. These sites were completed by September 2023.
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EISCAT
EISCAT (European Incoherent Scatter AB, formerly EISCAT Scientific Association) is a non-profit scientific research organisation that operates three incoherent scatter radar systems in Northern Scandinavia and Svalbard, as well as an ionospheric heating and short-wave radar facility.
The facilities are used to study the interaction between the Sun and the Earth as revealed by disturbances in the ionosphere and magnetosphere.
The EISCAT Scientific Association exists to provide scientists with access to incoherent scatter radar facilities of the highest technical standard.
The construction of EISCAT's new generation of incoherent radar sites, EISCAT 3D, started in November 2022.
The first stage of the new system will consist of three radar sites, functioning together, just as the old mainland system has. Transmitter upgrades and more sites will be added to the system in the future.
Instead of parabolic dishes, as used by the old system, EISCAT 3D is a multistatic radar composed of three phased-array antenna fields. Many small antennas working together as one. Each field will have between 5 000 - 10 000 crossed dipole antenna mounted on top of a ground plane 70 meters in diameter.
The core site of EISCAT 3D is located just outside Skibotn, Norway. The facility will have 109 hexagonal antenna units as its main antenna, and 10 antenna units spread out around the main site. On top of the antenna units the dipole antennas are mounted. The Skibotn facility will have 10 000 of these small antennas. The Skibotn facility will act both as a transceiver and receiver of the EISCAT 3D system.
Two receiver sites are located in Karesuvando, Finland and Kaiseniemi, Sweden. The facilities consist of 54 and 55 antenna units with approximately 5 000 dipole antennas. These sites were completed by September 2023.