Expertise
Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy operates the Westerbork
Synthesis Radio Telescope and has major research and development
laboratories for astronomy instrumentation and technology covering a
wide wavelength range: optical/mm/sub-mm/radio. ASTRON first developed
phased arrays for decimetric radio astronomy (culminating in the THEA
project) and has developed low-frequency multi-beaming technology (the
LOFAR project); it is also involved in large software system
development.
AAVP role
Overall coordination of SKADS (DS1); coordinator for DS3 (The
Network and its output data) and DS5 (Aperture Array Demonstrator
EMBRACE); major participant in DS4 (technical foundations and enabling
technologies) and DS8 (Overall System Design and Preliminary Project
Plan).
