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The CORNISH survey, a 5 GHz radio continuum survey of the Galactic Plane, focusing on the northern SPITZER GLIMPSE region. The survey has been awarded 400 hours of VLA B-array time yielding 1 arcsecond resolution at a sensitivity of 0.2 mJy/beam, sufficient to detect UCHII regions right across the Galaxy. The same region is being covered by a new near-IR survey by the UKIDSS consortium and will also be part of a submillimetre continuum survey at the JCMT.
The first 200 hours of observations (between l=22 and l=48 degrees) were successfully completed in September 2006 and the remainder of the target area will be observed in September 2007. It is hoped to release the resulting images and source catalogue to the community in mid-2008.
In this talk we present the results stemming from the initial observations.
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