Sites in Scandinavia

EISCAT Scientific Association is operating three incoherent scatter radar systems, at 931 MHz, 224 MHz and 500 MHz, in Northern Scandinavia.

The EISCAT transmitter site is located close to the city of Tromsų, in Norway, and additional receiver stations are located in Sodankylä, Finland, and Kiruna, Sweden. The EISCAT Headquarters are also located in Kiruna.

The Incoherent Scatter Radar technique requires sophisticated technology and EISCAT engineers are constantly involved in upgrading the systems.

The EISCAT Scientific Association has also constructed a new incoherent scatter radar facility, the EISCAT Svalbard Radar, near Longyearbyen, on the island of Spitsbergen, far to the North of the Norwegian mainland. In addition to the incoherent scatter radars, EISCAT also operates an Ionospheric Heater facility at Ramfjordmoen (including a Dynasonde) to support various active plasma physics experiments in the high latitude ionosphere.