Super Dual Auroral Radar Network - Coverage

Coverage

Northern Hemisphere

• Because the SuperDARN network evolved in the west during the late Cold War, coverage of Russia's arctic regions is poor.
• Although there is no shortage of possible sites to cover Russia's arctic regions from Northern Europe and Alaska, the coverage would probably not be of high quality.
• So far there has been no movement within those managing the SuperDARN network to do joint ventures with Russian universities to build the Russian part of the network.

Southern Hemisphere

• Although Antarctica is covered reasonably well, the Sub-Antarctic regions do not have uniform coverage.
• Java VM real time display software interoperabiliy (where both poles could be observed at the same time) is still a work in progress.