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SkyRadar develops and manufactures radar hardware and simulators, dedicated to training and education purposes. The European consortium was founded in 2008 by the physicist Eric Moskwa and the scientist Ulrich Scholten. SkyRadar supplies training radars to aviation academies as well as universities. The consortium also operates an extensive knowledge portal, providing free e-Learning and academic publications.

History
SkyRadar started in 2008 with the objective to make fully operational radar systems suitable for training and education purposes, responding to technical, budgetary and pedagogical requirements. The founders experimented on close-range and low radiation radars. The first operational radars were produced in October 2008, including A-Scope and B-Scope functionality. PPI-scope functionality was added in 2009, as well as main filter functions like STC. To reduce costs and to gain more scope of manoeuvre for pedagogical optimization, the team decoupled radars and scopes. In the solutions from 2013 onwards, low radation radars send Q/I signals as message to browser enabled scopes, allowing students to operate scopes, filters or ampliers independently. Since 2014, a message-queue based server allows to connect high numbers of conncurrent users. Following a strategy of cost reduction, SkyRadar distributes its radar visualisation software free of charge. In the same year, SkyRadar went live with a knowledge portal, offering free of charge e-learning and providing access to recent academic publications on the subject. Since January 2017, core functionalities of the technology behind SkyRadar's primary surveillance radar have been patented through the European Patent Office.

Products

 * Primary Surveillance Radar family, consiting of pulse and doppler radars, as well as FMCW radars. The radar signals are visualized through the radar visualization software "FreeScopes", including A-Scopes, B-Scopes, Plan-Position-Indicators, Filters such as STC, Threshold (STC), constant false alarm rate (CFAR), moving targed indication (MTI).
 * Secondary Surveillance Radar family, including ADS-B and Multilateration radars as well as SSR simulators.
 * IATA-oriented laboratories for aviation security.

Knowledge Portal
In the knowledge portal, the consortium offers access to software, e-Learning and academic publications. The e-Learning content is offered in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute IOSB. The research section provides academic publications and case studies on radar research published during the recent 3 years, includig subjects such as data mining, drone detection, fast Fourrier, or linked open data in air traffic management. All content is freely accessible at no charge.