The CUTLASS radars' common field of view is roughly bounded by range gates
10 - 50 for Finland
25 - 50 for Iceland
CUTLASS Finland BEAM-RANGE locations for supporting Geophysical Instrumentation FORMAT (beam,range) beams numbered from most anticlockwise=0, ranges numbered from nearest=1. SITES Tromso (EISCAT) 69.6 N, 19.2 E, dip ~78 degrees Ny Alesund (CUTLASS Transponder/ionosonde) 78.9 N, 12.0 E, dip ~82 degrees Longyearbyen (ESR) 78.2 N, 16.5 E, dip ~82 degrees Standard CUTLASS scanning mode (21/04/95) Altitude 0 km 300 km vertical 300 km (field aligned) Tromso (5,17) (5,18) (5,17) Ny Alesund (8,40) (8,41) (8,41) Longyearbyen (9,37) (9,39) (9,38) Note Beam 9 intersects with the ESR and follows IMAGE Beam 5 points towards the magnetic pole and intersects with EISCAT Beam 12 lies closest to a meridian up to the north of Svalbard
CUTLASS Iceland BEAM-RANGE locations for supporting Geophysical Instrumentation FORMAT (beam,range) beams numbered from most anticlockwise=0, ranges numbered from nearest=1. SITES Tromso (EISCAT) 69.6 N, 19.2 E, dip ~78 degrees Ny Alesund (CUTLASS Transponder/ionosonde) 78.9 N, 12.0 E, dip ~82 degrees Longyearbyen (ESR) 78.2 N, 16.5 E, dip ~82 degrees Standard CUTLASS scanning mode (21/04/95) Altitude 0 km 300 km vertical 300 km (field aligned) Tromso (14,38) (14,39) (15,39) Ny Alesund (4,41) (4,43) (5,42) Longyearbyen (5,42) (5,44) (6,43) Note Beam 5 intersects with the ESR Beam 0 lies closest to the meridian Beam 14 intersects with EISCAT