About Open Radar
What is the Open Radar Initiative?
The Open Radar Initiative is a project to develop reliable and reusable technology for radio science applications. The initiative will provide a resource for the development of radio science systems, reduce the duplication of effort in the community, provide a means for distributing innovative techniques, and lower the expense and difficulty of developing new experimental systems. The initial focus of the initiative is to produce a set of hardware and software components that can be combined to construct and modernize ionospheric radars. The components will be designed for use in incoherent scatter, coherent scatter, and passive radar systems. Many of the hardware and software elements may also be useful in other scientific systems such as riometers, sounders, beacon tomography systems, and radio telescopes. An "open source" development model is being used to distribute the resulting technology and to encourage community participation.
How is the Initiative Organized?
The Initiative is being managed by Frank Lind of MIT Haystack Observatory. The primary means of running the project will be through this web site and via email mailing lists. Another important tool is the CVS repository that allows remote access to the software associated with the initiative.
Online Content Organization
The OpenRadar website is the primary point of organization for the initiative. It is divided into the following sections :
Overview of the initiative. This page!
The OpenRadar email lists for users, developers, and announcements.
Information related to radio science, radar architecture, protocols, standards, and tutorials.
Development projects for radio science related hardware and software.
A listing of ionospheric radar systems.
Online version control system used for software projects.
Interesting resources related to the development of radio science hardware and software.
Responses to frequently asked questions or at least ones we think might be frequently asked.
Open Radar contact information.
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CVSProject Groups
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Open Radar administrators.
Trusted users who have write access to the general site areas.
Users who have write access to the workshops.
The working group which for radio science projects.
Group authorized to modify the Aspect Angle Mapping project.
Group authorized to view and modify the ISIS Array project.
Site manager group for the ISIS Array project.
Group authorized to view and modify the Beacon Receiver project.
Group authorized to modify the Echotek project pages.
ProjectPersistenceDataStandardGroup
Group authorized to modify the Radio Science Persistence Data Standard Project.
ProjectGeospaceReceiverArchitectureGroup
Group authorized to modify the Geospace Receiver Architecture Project.