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.

Australia Canada China Europe India South
Africa
USA
Site studies and infrastructure engineering            
SKA scheduling, operations and maintenance models                  
Outreach and public education      
Low-cost manufacturing of small to medium diameter dishes                    
Low-cost, low-loss, artificial dielectrics for radio lenses                        
Active surface adjustment techniques for very large (> 100m) reflectors                    
Advanced mechatronic systems for feed positioning and antenna control              
Decade bandwidth feed antennas for dish and lens flux concentrators                  
Broadband, active, phased arrays for aperture and focal plane applications            
Low-noise, highly integrated, receivers for both cryogenic and uncooled applications        
High-speed (Tb/s) digital fibre optic links for distance regimes extending from 100 m to 3000 km        
Low-cost, high-speed (Gs/s) analog to digital converters        
High-speed digital signal processing engines (Pb/s) and ultra-fast supercomputing          
Software engineering for robust, intelligent, array control and data processing                
Radio-frequency interference mitigation using coherent and incoherent techniques                
High dynamic range (>60 dB) image formation using sparsely-sampled Fourier plane data          

area of interest

current R & D activities

Contacts

SPDO Australia Canada
Peter Dewdney
dewdney@skatelescope.org
Brian Boyle
Brian.Boyle@csiro.au
Russ Taylor russ@ras.ucalgary.ca
China Europe India
Bo Peng
bp@bao.ac.cn
Thijs van der Hulst
vdhulst@astro.rug.nl
Yashwant Gupta ygupta@ncra.tifr.res.in
Japan South Africa USA
Hiroyuki Nakanishi
hnakanis@sci.kagoshima-u.ac.jp
Bernie Fanaroff
bfanaroff@fanaroff.co.za
Prof Jim Cordes
cordes@astro.cornell.edu



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