EISCAT 3D Antenna Unit Installation

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EISCAT Scientific Association is conducting a project with the goal to construct a new radar system, EISCAT_3D, which will be a next generation incoherent scatter radar capable of providing 3D monitoring of the atmosphere and ionosphere. EISCAT_3D is primarily designed to investigate how the Earth's atmosphere is coupled to space, and the system will be a multi-static radar composed of multiple phased-array antenna sites containing crossed dipole antenna elements. The radar sites will be located in Finland, Norway and Sweden. The Antenna Unit is one of the main components in the EISCAT 3D radar system. One Antenna Unit mainly consists of a 20-foot container, an antenna frame structure and 91 dipole antenna elements. 228 Antenna Units will be installed in total on the three EISCAT 3D sites.