A general overview of the SKA from an international
engineering
perspective is available, as are descriptions of the various
demonstrators.
Organisations (including commercial industry) interested in the SKA should initially contact the industry contact person for their region, or Phil Crosby (crosby@sketelescope.org).
Industry contact points
AUSTRALIA - Carole Jackson, CSIRO-ATNF (carole.jackson@csiro.au)
CANADA - Bob Este, University of Calgary (beste@ras.ucalgary.ca)
CHINA - Feng Wang (wangfeng3584@yahoo.com.cn)
EUROPE - Peter Wilkinson, University of Manchester (peter.wilkinson@manchester.ac.uk)
JAPAN - Noriyuki Kawaguchi, NAOJ (kawagu.nori@nao.ac.jp)
SOUTH AFRICA - Willem Esterhuyse, Cape Town Project Manager, (westerhuyse@ska.ac.za)
USA - Lynn Baker, Cornell University (lab5@cornell.edu)
There is a high, and increasing, level of collaboration between the SKA Consortia; and early collaboration with particular groups therefore affords excellent international visibility. Additional input at the global project management level may be possible via the SKA Project Development Office (SPDO) with its interests in, for example, complex decision making, systems engineering, and risk management.
During the period 2009-2011, SPDO will be stewarding global interaction between the SKA Consortia and their regional industry partners, and undertaking a survey of capability readiness for the project. The table below is indicative of general areas of interest and capability as at 2005.
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Canada |
China |
Europe
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South
Africa |
USA
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| Site studies
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| SKA scheduling,
operations and maintenance models |
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| Outreach and
public education |
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| Low-cost manufacturing
of small to medium diameter dishes |
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| Low-cost,
low-loss, artificial dielectrics for radio lenses |
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| Active surface
adjustment techniques for very large (> 100m) reflectors |
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| Advanced mechatronic
systems for feed positioning and antenna control |
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| Decade bandwidth
feed antennas for dish and lens flux concentrators |
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| Broadband,
active, phased arrays for aperture and focal plane applications |
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| Low-noise,
highly integrated, receivers for both cryogenic and uncooled
applications |
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| High-speed (Tb/s)
digital fibre optic links for distance regimes extending from
100 m to 3000 km |
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| Low-cost,
high-speed (Gs/s) analog to digital converters |
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| High-speed digital
signal processing engines (Pb/s) and ultra-fast supercomputing |
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| Software engineering
for robust, intelligent, array control and data processing |
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| Radio-frequency
interference mitigation using coherent and incoherent techniques |
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| High dynamic range
(>60 dB) image formation using sparsely-sampled Fourier
plane data |
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area of interest
current
R & D activities
Contacts
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