ATRAD

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Member Profile

ATRAD is a manufacturer of Atmospheric Radar Systems, established in 1995. Initially a University of Adelaide spin out company but now independent of the University, it has successfully commercialised the design, development, manufacture, installation and support of Atmospheric Radar Systems. ATRAD’s installed base of more than 60 radars or major radar subsystems worldwide (across a wide variety of polar, desert, temperate and tropical locations) demonstrates this level of success. Applications of instrumentation developed by ATRAD include windprofiling of low level winds at airport and rocket launch facilities, investigations into the mesosphere, stratosphere and troposphere, providing data for input to the climate record and the derivation of winds from meteor trails in the upper atmosphere. ATRAD has gained an outstanding international reputation in this field of science.

ATRAD’s success has been built on it’s:
- Highly qualified, professional workforce

- Strong science links to the Department of Physics at the University of Adelaide and many other research organisations

- Depth of scientific knowledge and experience
- Large installed base
- Focus on customer support and quality
- Access to highly qualified consultants and scientists

ATRAD's broader mission is the design, development, integration and international marketing of innovative, leading-edge systems for environmental remote sensing, monitoring and interpretation. ATRAD is well placed to extend its experience in radar-based sensing into other sensor technologies and to apply its scientific skills more broadly in the pursuit of this mission.