The Cluster Top-DOWN Project “RADARDRONE”

Abstract: RADARDRONE was one of the projects funded by Sardegna Ricerche, the Sardinia Regional government agency devoted to managing and financing research programs. The project involved more than 10 private companies together with the INAF-OACA and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the Cagliari University. The main aim of the project was to analyze and study different systems for the radio detection of drones and to perform some studies in radar systems. We organized many meetings and teleconferences to involve the companies in our activities as much as possible, even though COVID-19 caused a lot of problems for our laboratory activities and research.

Brief CV of Dr. Tonino Pisanu:

Dr. Pisanu has been a Technologist at INAF-OAC since 2001, where he is involved in research and development activities in the field of radio astronomical receivers and metrology systems to control and measure the deformations of the Sardinia Radio Telescope. He is the local manager of the funds for the European EUSST program for the use of the bistatic radar system called BIRALET, in which the receiving system is the SRT radio telescope. He carries out technology transfer activities with high-tech Sardinian companies and with the DIEE of the University of Cagliari, participating in regional sector calls, as happened in the two Cluster Top Down projects “SARDASENSORS” funded in 2014 and “RADARDRONE” in 2018.