Commissioning of the Sodankyla, Finland VHF SKiYMET Radar October 2008

Genesis Software completes commissioning of the Sodanklya SKiYMET radar in Finland.

Radar receive antenna

This SKiYMET system consists of  15kW (5% duty cycled) pulsed radar transmitter and 5 receive antennas to perform interferometric analysis of meteor echoes to calculate the location in space.

Radar receive array

Optional analysis software has also been supplied to perform radiant mapping, wind velocity determination, diffusion coefficient calculation, entrance velocity estimation and momentum flux analysis.

Radar transmit & receive cabinets

Genesis Software supplied the antennas, transmitter, receivers and data acquisition hardware, MARDOC supplied the analysis software.