Reference Materials
ISR Demonstration links
Recommended Radar Books
1) Stimson, Introduction to Airborne Radar (Artech, 1998)
2) Levanon, Radar Principles (Wiley, 1988)
3) Mahafza, Radar Signal Analysis and Processing Using MATLAB (Chapman & Hall, 2008)
4) Skolnik, Introduction to radar principles (McGraw-Hill, 2002)
5) Skolnik, Radar Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 2008)
6) Rihaczek, Principles of High Resolution Radar (Artech House, 1996)
Recommended Ionosphere Books
1) Kelley, M. C. 1989; 2009. The Earth's ionosphere: Plasma physics and electrodynamics. International Geophysics Series, vol 43. San Diego: Academic Press. (Hardcover - 2009/05/19)
2) Rishbeth, Henry; Garriott, Owen K. Introduction to ionospheric physics, New, York, Academic Press, 1969. International geophysics series, v. 14
3) Jursa, Adolph S., Handbook of Geophysics and the Space Environment, 4th edition, 1985, Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA
Some references on inverse methods
1) Tarantola, Albert; Inverse Problem Theory, Siam, 2005.
2) Aster, Borchers and Thurber, Parameter Estimation and Inverse Problems, International Geophysics Series, Academic Press, 2005
AGENDA
AMISR Summer School MIT Haystack Observatory & SRI International 26 - 30 July 2010 – at Millstone Hill, Westford, Massachusetts
Sunday, 25 July
18:30-XXXX Pizza dinner – staff and students at hotel; Logistics about transport for students. Group assignments for students.
Monday, 26 July
08:00-08:30 Breakfast at hotel; meet in lobby to divide up in groups at 8:15
08:30-09:00 Arrive and settle in (Coffee and snacks at Haystack)
09:00-09:30 Welcome, Introduction of Colin Lonsdale and John Foster, Logistics - Anthea Coster
09:30-10:15 Intro to Ionosphere - Intro_to_Ionosphere.pdf Anthea Coster
10:15-10:30 BREAK
10:30-11:30 Basic Radar I - Asti Bhatt
11:30-12:00 ISR Theory I - Anja Strømme
12:00-13:00 Lunch provided with experiments (Asti and Anthea)
13:00-14:00 ISR Theory II - Anja Strømme
14:00-18:00 Using Madrigal practically and productively - Bill Rideout/all staff
18:30-XXXX Dinner at HAYSTACK for staff and students
Tuesday, 27 July
08:00-08:30 Breakfast at hotel; meet in lobby to divide up in groups at 8:15
08:30-09:00 Arrive at Haystack, coffee and snacks provided;
09:00-10:00 Basic Radar II - Josh Semeter
10:00-10:15 BREAK
10:15-11:15 ISR Theory III - Phil Erickson
11:15-12:00 Data Analysis and Fitting I - Phil Erickson/Josh Semeter
12:00-13:00 Lunch provided
13:30-14:00 An Introduction to AMISR – Mike Nicolls
14:00-17:30 Experiment Design and Submission - Experiment Guide, Presentation - Mike Nicolls
Haystack groups 1,2
Geospace Science Center 3
Westford Antenna 4
Group 1 Haystack Conf A - tour of Haystack (15 min) A. Coster
Group 2 Haystack Conf D - tour of Haystack (15 min) A. Coster
Group 3 Geospace Science Center – tour of GSC F. Lind, P. Erickson
Group 4 Westford Antenna – tour of Westford; M. Poirier
18:00-XXXX Dinner on own (light dinner provided at hotel)
Wednesday, 28 July
08:00-08:30 Breakfast at hotel; meet in lobby to divide up in groups at 8:15
08:30-09:00 Arrive at Haystack; coffee and snacks provided
09:00-10:00 Data Analysis and Fitting II - Josh Semeter Data Processing
10:00-10:15 BREAK
10:15-11:15 Data Analysis and Fitting III - Phil Erickson/Josh Semeter
11:15-12:00 Other Instrumentation at Poker Flat – Elizabeth Kendall
12:00-13:30 Lunch provided
13:30-17:30 Data Retrieval and Analysis - Mike Nicolls/Bill Rideout
Group 1 Haystack Conf D (Westford intro) M. Poirier
Group 2 Westford, intro with group 1 M. Poirier
Group 3 Haystack Conf A. Coster
Group 4 GSC F. Lind/P. Erickson
18:15-XXXX Student cookout dinner, transportation provided [rain date: Thursday evening]. If raining dinner at hotel
Thursday, 29 July
08:00-08:30 Breakfast at hotel; meet in lobby to divide up in groups at 8:15
08:30-09:00 Arrive at Haystack; coffee and snacks provided
09:00-09:15 Full Incoherent Scatter Spectrum - Asti Bhatt
09:15-10:00 Application of ISR technology to the upper atmospheric long-term trend study - Shunrong Zhang
10:00-10:15 BREAK
10:15-11:00 Unravelling trends in the ionosphere - Thomas Ulich
11:00-11:20 Science with a Classic ISR: Examples from UAF Chain - Anthea Coster
11:20-12:00 AMISR Science Results - Anja Strømme
12:00-13:00 Lunch provided
13:00-17:30 Presentation Preparation - All course staff
Group 1 GSC tour of GSC (1 & 2)
Group 2 Haystack Conf A go to GSC for intro F. Lind and P. Erickson
Group 3 Westford – tour of Westford M. Poirier
Group 4 Haystack Conf D – tour of Haystack A. Coster
Friday, 30 July
08:00-08:30 Breakfast at hotel; meet in lobby to divide up in groups at 8:15
08:30-09:00 Arrive at Haystack; coffee and snacks provided
09:00-09:45 Student Presentations
09:45-10:15 BREAK
10:15-12:00 Student Presentations; Summary and Evaluations
12:00-13:00 Lunch provided
13:00-16:00 Afternoon Science Talks
RISR – Mike Greffen
EISCAT - Current Status and Future Plans – Thomas Ulich
Ionospheric Heating – Elizabeth Kendall