A general overview of the SKA from an international
engineering
perspective is available, as are descriptions of the various
demonstrators.
Companies interested in the SKA may wish to seek more information
and, to streamline the contact process, the table below provides
a summary of national consortia interests and current R&D
areas. There is a high, and increasing, level of collaboration
between consortia; collaboration with particular groups therefore
affords excellent international visibility. Additional input at
the international level may be possible via the International
SKA Project Office (ISPO) with its interests in, for example,
complex decision making and risk management.
As policy, the SKA project is committed to high
quality collaborations producing valuable outcomes for the parties
involved. The capacity of some research groups to manage external
links is currently limited and, to ensure quality is maintained,
limits on the number or scale of partnerships may be in place.
Interests and Current Activities of SKA
National Consortia.
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& D or Interest Area |
Australia |
Canada |
China |
Europe
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Africa |
USA
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| Site studies
and infrastructure engineering |
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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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