Genesis Software completes commissioning of the Poker Flat SKiYMET radar in Fairbanks, Alaska.
This system is a standard VHF meteor radar with a 32kW pulsed transmitter connected to a crossed 2 element Yagi antenna.
The receive system is 5 crossed 2 element Yagi in a standard meteor radar configuration to allow inteferometric analysis of meteor echoes for position determination. Each antenna is equiped with a weather proof front end amplifier to boost the signal before going to the receiving system in the hut.
Genesis Software supplied the transmitter, receiver, antenna system and processing software, MARDOC supplied the meteor analysis software.