For those of you joining us midway through this project, perhaps a little background is in order. RISR-C is the southward facing Resolute Incoherent Scatter Radar-Canada (as opposed to RISR-N where the N stands for North-facing ... this does not mean that North is the opposite of Canada but rather that you should never let a committee name anything). RISR-C is an Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR), or in layman's terms, a really big thingy (that is RISR-N in the background on the left, and the structure for RISR-C on the right).
Actually it is a large phased array radar with two siblings (and more on the way), the aforementioned and co-located RISR-N and PFISR (pronounced either 'fizer' or 'p-fizer' depending on which coast you are from ... like I said consistent naming is not a strong point in this particular field). Anyway, more information can be found here http://isr.sri.com/iono/amisr/.
AMISR is built by SRI International and we had the pleasure of participating in the last stages of this process in July of this year. The components were then trucked to St. Catherine's outside Montreal and from there loaded onto the boat, oops ... I mean ship, and are currently afloat somewhere off the coast of Baffin Island. At some point they will arrive in Resolute ... like I said, stay tuned!
