Design and manufacture of atmospheric radar systems

Since its installation in early February 2007, the King George Island radar has consistently recorded meteor count rates in excess of 20,000 per day - typically 24,000 per day. This astounding performance for only an 8kW radar can be attributed to ATRAD's extensive work in enhancing the meteor analysis software as well as close attention to overall RF system design.

Chungnam National University of Korea have installed an 8kW Meteor Radar at their King Sejong Base situated on the Barton Peninsula of King George Island alongside the Antarctic Peninsula. Since commencing operations in Feb 2007, the radar has consistently produced unambiguous meteor counts rates exceeding 20,000 per day. Using Count Rate per Peak kW as a figure of merit, the EMDR exhibits performance up to 3-4 times better than that of other commonly used all-sky meteor radars.

ATRAD supplied an 8kW EMDR Enhanced Meteor Detection Radar to STEL Japan / University of Tromso for installation at Bear Island in Norway. Bear Island is the southernmost island of the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, situated halfway between the arctic circle and the north pole. The University of Tromso are providing the Antenna array and final commissioning is expected to occur in the first half of 2007.

ATRAD has recently commissioned a 100kW ST-Class Doppler Radar for Wuhan University in China.

The ATRAD Data Analysis & Display software suite has recently been supplied to Colorado University to enhance the performance of their Meteor Radars.

ATRAD has delivered its new generation 40kW solid-state radar to Vaisala in Colorado. The new transmitter supports up to 15% duty cycle operation and is specifically designed to deliver both the flexibility required by the scientific user and the robustness and reliability required by operational users.

In 1999, an MF Spaced Antenna radar was installed in Kohlapur, India for the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism. Recently performance has been significantly enhanced by upgrade the original data acquisition system to the latest ATRAD APAC system.

Vaisala has installed a 40kW LAP-12000 Doppler Radar in Xichang, China. The LAP-12000 radar is the result of a collaboration between Vaisala and ATRAD.

An MDR5 All-Sky Meteor radar has been supplied to the University of Adelaide's Atmospheric Research group for deployment in Darwin, Australia.

Vaisala has installed a 40kW LAP-12000 Doppler Radar in Jiiquan, China. The LAP-12000 radar is the result of a collaboration between Vaisala and ATRAD.