https://tinyurl.com/2025ISR
Lecturers
- Craig Heinselman - Univ. of Alaska - cjheinselman@alaska.edu
- Josh Semeter - Boston University - jls@bu.edu
- Katherine Cariglia - MIT - cariglia@mit.edu
- Roger Varney - UCLA - rvarney@atmos.ucla.edu
- Asti Bhatt - SRI - asti.bhatt@sri.com
- Phil Erickson - MIT - pje@mit.edu
- Pablo Reyes - SRI - pablo.reyes@sri.com
Video introductions to the various ISR facilities
- Jicamarca, Peru
- AMISR virtual tour
- Millstone Hill, USA
- Arecibo ISR, Puerto Rico (as of Summer 2020)
- Resolute Bay AMISR (RISR) construction, Canada
Tools
- GitHub site
- On line Jupyter Notebooks
- IS spectrum Java applet
- Python Incoherent Scatter tools from Mike and Roger based on Kudeki/Milla paper
- visuamisr python toolkit, AMISR Matlab toolkit, AMISR IDL toolkit
- References
- Useful background material on the web
- Notes on papers
- Literature and links
- ISR facts sheet
- Evans 1969
- Killeen 1984
- Lehtinen - alternating codes
- StMaurice 1999
- Thayer/Semeter 2004
- Nygren paper on radar and alternating codes
- Eiscat ISR lectures book
AMISR Experiment Design
ISR Summer School 2025 Experiment request
AMISR schedule of actual operations
PFISR beam positions
PFISR real time data display
SWPC web page
2025 Student Groups
Past years ISR school wiki pages
MIT small radar site
NSF ISR Photo release Form
UCF ISR Photo release Form
Digisonde Data Base (choose PF765 for Poker) link
All times for July 14 are Pacific Time
| Date | Time | Topic for Exercises | Instructor | Videos | Exercises |
| Time in PT for July 14 | |||||
| July 14 | 9:00 AM | Introduction of participants | Andrey Krywonos | ||
| Group Assignments | Andrey Krywonos | ||||
| Computer needs and other logistics | Pablo Reyes | ||||
| 9:30 AM | ISR as a black box | K Cariglia | ISR as a black box | ISR Black Box Exercise | |
| 10:15 AM | Madrigal Database | K Cariglia/Pablo Reyes | Madrigal | ||
| Work on Madrigal Exercises - only web exercises | split into groups - instructor/group, everyone does the exercise | Ex 1: PFISR example, Millstone example Ex 2: Web interface Ex 3: Script interface | |||
| 11:30 AM | Break | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Introduction to the Ionosphere | Roger Varney | IntroToIonosphere.pdf | ||
| 12:45 PM | Radar Physics | Asti Bhatt | Radar Physics | RADAR_PHYSICS_2024.pdf | |
| 1:30 PM | Open Q&A | All | |||
| 2:00 PM | End | ||||
| Sunday July 20 | 6:30 PM | Welcome dinner/Meet & greet (Geophysical Institute) | |||
| Monday July 21 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Introduction, setting up school expectations | Andrey, Mildred, Asti | |||
| schedules, logistics, answering open question, etc. | all | ||||
| 9:15 AM | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Craig/Josh | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | RadarSignalProcessing_2024_comp.pdf | |
| 10:00 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:15 AM | ISR Data Examples | Asti Bhatt/Roger Varney | |||
| Group work on ISR Examples | |||||
| Groups present ISR Examples | |||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Basics of Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | Phased Arrays | phasedArrays.pdf | |
| 1:30 PM | Statistical Signal Processing basics + Experiment design | Asti Bhatt/Roger Varney | |||
| 2:00 PM | Group work on Experiment Design | ||||
| 5:00 PM | Deadline to submit experiments | ||||
| 5:00 PM | Dinner | ||||
| 6:00 PM | Student Time Block 1 (2 hrs) | All lecturers attend Block 1 | Reichardt Building | ||
| 8:00 PM | Student Time Block 2 (2 hrs) | Reichardt Building | |||
| 10:00 PM | Student Time Block 3 (2 hrs) | Reichardt Building | |||
| Tuesday July 22 | 7:00 AM | Student Time Block 4 (2 hrs) | |||
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 9:00 AM | Student Time Block 5 (2 hrs) | ||||
| 11:30 AM | Leave for Poker Flat | ||||
| 12:30 PM | Lunch at Poker Flat | ||||
| 1:30 PM | Lower Range Tour | Don Hampton | |||
| 2:30 PM | Group 1 SOC Tour | Group 2 Lidar Tour | Don Hampton/ Lidar Group | |||
| 3:15 PM | Group 2 SOC Tour | Group 1 Lidar Tour | Don Hampton/ Lidar Group | |||
| 4:00 PM | PFISR Tour | ||||
| 5:00 PM | Return to UAF | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | ||||
| Wednesday July 23 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney | Statistical Signal Processing | radarStats3.pdf | |
| 9:30 AM | ISR Theory | Phil Erickson | ISR Theory | IS_Theory_2024.pdf | |
| 10:30 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:45 AM | Open Q&A | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Auroral Science | Don Hampton | |||
| 1:45 PM | Start of group work | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | ||||
| Thursday July 24 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Data analysis and fitting 1 | Pablo Reyes | Data analysis and fitting 1 | 02_modeling_data_fitting_2021.pdf | |
| 9:30 AM | Data analysis and fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | Data analysis and fitting 2 | ||
| 10:30 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:45 AM | Guest Lecture | Paul Bernhardt | |||
| 11:30 AM | Open Q&A | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Guest Lecture | Doga Ozturk | |||
| 1:45 PM | Group work | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | ||||
| 7:30 PM | MIT IAP “Cantenna” Small Radar discussion and demonstration | Phil Erickson | NanoVNA Vector Network Analyzer Small and Short-Range Radar Systems (Greg Charvat) Principles of Modern Radar: Basic Principles (Radar, Sonar, and Navigation) (Mark Richards) | ||
| Friday July 25 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Advanced Phased Array/EISCAT-3D | Craig Heinselman | Advanced Phased Array comp.pdf | ||
| 9:30 AM | Open Question and Answer | ||||
| 10:15 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:30 AM | Group work | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | ISR Science | Josh Semeter | |||
| 1:45 PM | Group work | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | ||||
| Saturday July 26 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Group 1 Presentation | ||||
| 9:00 AM | Group 2 Presentation | ||||
| 9:30 AM | Group 3 Presentation | ||||
| 10:00 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:30 AM | Group 4 Presentation | ||||
| 11:00 AM | Group 5 Presentation | ||||
| 11:30 AM | Wrap-up and Review | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Depart | ||||