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A SuperDARN radar site located in Saskatoon, Canada. The Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) is an international scientific radar network [1] [2] consisting of 35 [3] high frequency (HF) radars located in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
A new radar, owned and operated by ECCC, has been installed in Blainville (near Montreal) to replace the use of the McGill radar. As well, a new radar will be installed in the Lower Athabasca area. [12] The new radars are the Leonardo METEOR 1700S (formerly marketed by Selex ES) which is fully Doppler and dual polarized: [2] [13]
As a result of the Cold War and with the expansion of a North American continental air defence system, The site at Saskatoon Mountain was selected as a site for a United States Air Force (USAF) radar station, one of the many that would make up the Pinetree Line of Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) radar sites. Construction on the base began in ...
Canadian Forces Station Dana (CFS Dana) was a military radar station 35 miles east of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in the Rural Municipality of Bayne No. 371. RCAF Station Dana (also known as Sagehill) was opened in 1962 as part of the Pinetree Line of NORAD radar stations. The station was later renamed CFS Dana when the military branches were merged.
The 15-hectare park has a campground and picnic area as well as access to the North Saskatchewan River and the abandoned Borden Bridge. [20] [21] The RM of Corman Park is home to a Super Dual Auroral Radar Network radar site operated by the University of Saskatchewan.
Diagram of AN/SPY-3 vertical electronic pencil beam radar conex projections. X band functionality (8 to 12 GHz frequency range) is optimal for minimizing low-altitude propagation effects, narrow beam width for best tracking accuracy, wide frequency bandwidth for effective target discrimination, and the target illumination for SM-2 and Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM).
The Saskatoon Correctional Centre also is located in the Marquis Industrial park. NORAC Systems International Inc. opened their 2.87-acre (11,600 m 2) land, $2.5-million industrial plant in 2007. [2] In the Marquis Industrial subdivision are 1092 full-time employees and 24 part-time employees. [3]
The Unwin Radar array at Awarua. The Unwin Radar is a scientific radar array at Awarua, near Invercargill, New Zealand. Unwin is part of the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN), an international radar network for studying the upper atmosphere and ionosphere that operates in the High Frequency (HF) bands between 8 and 22 MHz.