Is SETI the only active effort that collects and analyzes radio telescope data for intelligent signals?

There is the SETI Institute which has a radio telescope, the Allen Telescope Array. But there are others too like Breakthrough Listen, which uses the Green Bank radio telescope and the Parkes radio telescope.Some data from Green Bank, given by BL, run also on my PCs.
Tullio

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SETI@home-wise, only the project SETI@CAMRAS (now unplugged) existed for a while, in beta-test. It is still in development.

For anything SETI related, past and present, see https://technosearch.seti.org (SETI@home is listed here with other significant projects)

If you really, really need or want access to raw open data, a few sources are mentioned here.

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

If you really, really need or want access to raw open data, a few sources are mentioned here.

Thanks for the replies. I was thinking about the data. If I understand correctly SETI keeps all the collected data (tapes?) because as the science and technology progress they find new ways to re-analyze the data looking for different types of potentially intelligent signals.

Does SETI make its archived raw data available to others? Has anyone ever asked for access? If another researcher or some obsessed billionaire with a private supercomputer (e.g. S.R.Hadden ;-) thought he had a better method to parse the data could he get access to it?

This notion also makes me curious as to how SETI stores and protects its massive archive. Is it on tape? Disk? Is there a remote backup copy??

If you mean SETI@home, I think they have their archives, as Breakthrough Listen has and SETI Institute has. But they may be in different formats and are not interchangeable. There is not a global SETI.
Tullio

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If you mean SETI@home, I think they have their archives, as Breakthrough Listen has and SETI Institute has. But they may be in different formats and are not interchangeable. There is not a global SETI.
Tullio

The SigMF format seems a good way to facilitate universal access to the many data formats produced by so many different initiatives, programs and instruments.

" We're hopeful that releasing raw data in this open format will encourage more collaboration between SETI researchers and experts in the tech and RF industries, and that we'll be able to work together on algorithms to identify a wide range of signals both in our data, and in similar data from other sources, in search of that elusive signal from a technological civilization beyond Earth." (from the very informative article "Open data" at http://seti.berkeley.edu:8000/open-data/)

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

" We're hopeful that releasing raw data in this open format will encourage more collaboration between SETI researchers and experts in the tech and RF industries, and that we'll be able to work together on algorithms to identify a wide range of signals both in our data, and in similar data from other sources, in search of that elusive signal from a technological civilization beyond Earth." (from the very informative article "Open data" at http://seti.berkeley.edu:8000/open-data/)

Link correction: Open Data http://104.197.48.230/open-data/

Zooniverse is currently running a "Spot the clusters" project (here)
If you are not already a member of the zooniverse community you will have to join it)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

HEY !--Variation on a theme that has been posted by myself and others.

You know what a good SETI-like project would be: is for some one or group of scientists to set out what they are fairly sure is required for sentient beings such as our selves to evolve and be discovered by us within the next,say, 50 years. Are these things necessary? :

Near circular orbit
Tides
Axis tilt
Ozone layer
Spin stabilizing moon
Magnetic field of a certain strength
Non Binary Star
Star type--Spectral type G or Red Dwarf.
Minimum Age--say --3-4 Billion Years old
Gravity Min and Max range
Nitrogen atmospheric mix --minimum levels

There are other more obvious requirements:

Water
Goldilocks zone for temperature
Oxygen density
Dry Land

I have, by definition, eliminated water worlds--planets and moons covered in water ice.

It occurs to me that this type of study is more valuable to the SETI efforts and the "Are we alone" motivation than studying the possibility of more primitive life under extreme conditions which seems to be the fodder for exo-biologists. Perhaps we need a new field of science to address these issues--what should we call it and those who undertake such studies. As I have opined before,if we are certain of these requirements than we can catalog what % of planets have these characteristics --either one or all and evolve a new, more modern Drake equation to estimate the likely hood of an intelligent civilization and what the distances between them might be. I am fully aware that we will have to vastly improve our ability to find and analyze exo-planets --we are making some strides now in that direction.

Zooniverse is currently running a "Spot the clusters" project (here)

Zooniverse had an actual SETI project run by the SETI Institute: SETILive. Sadly it only ran from 2012-2014. I never found out why it was cancelled.

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