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| Date | Time | Topic for Exercises | Instructor | Videos | Exercises |
| Monday July 22 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Introduction of participants | All | |||
| Computer needs and other logistics | Bill Rideout/Katherine Cariglia | ||||
| Group Assignments | |||||
| 9:15 AM | Introduction to the Ionosphere | Roger Varney | To make | IntroToIonosphere.pdf | |
| 10:00 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:15 AM | ISR as a black box | Bill Rideout | ISR as a black box | ISR BlackBox Exercise | |
| 11:00 AM | Radar Physics | Asti Bhatt | Radar Physics | RADAR_PHYSICS_2024.pdf | |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | NSF Facilities Lecture | Roman Makarevich | |||
| 1:30 PM | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Craig Heinselman | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | RadarSignalProcessing_2024_comp.pdf | |
| 2:30 PM | Madrigal Database | Katherine Cariglia/Pablo Reyes/Lara Kamal | Madrigal | ||
| Group work on Madrigal Exercises | Ex 1: PFISR example, Millstone example Ex 2: Web interface Ex 3: Script interface | ||||
| 3:30 PM | ISR Data Examples | Phil Erickson/Asti Bhatt | ISR Theory | ||
| Group work on ISR Examples | |||||
| Groups present ISR Examples | |||||
| 4:30 PM | Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney | radarStats2.pdf | ||
| 5:00 PM | Experiment design | Asti Bhatt | AMISR experiment designv3.pdf | ||
| 6:30 PM | End | ||||
| Tuesday July 23 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney/Josh Semeter | radarStats3.pdf | ||
| 9:30 AM | ISR Theory | Phil Erickson | IS_Theory_2024.pdf | ||
| 10:30 AM | Break | ||||
| 11:00 AM | High-latitude Science | Asti Bhatt/Toshi Nishimura | |||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Experiment Design/Tonight's Space Weather Forecast | Anthea Coster/Asti Bhatt | Space Weather for ISR school.pdf | ||
| 1:20 PM | Group work on Experiment Design | ||||
| 3:00 PM | Deadline to submit experiments | ||||
| 5:00 PM | Student Time Block 1 (2 hrs) | All instructors attend Block 1 | |||
| 7:00 PM | Student Time Block 2 (2 hrs) | ||||
| 9:00 PM | Student Time Block 3 (2 hrs) | ||||
| Wednesday July 24 | 4:00 AM | Student time block 4 (2 hrs) | |||
| 6:00 AM | Student time block 5 (2 hrs) | ||||
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 9:30 AM | Leave for Haystack/Millstone Hill | ||||
| 11:00 AM | Arrive at Millstone | ||||
| 11:00 AM | Introduction to Haystack | Phil Erickson | |||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch at Haystack | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Space Weather | Anthea Coster | |||
| 2:00 PM | Tours of Haystack | ||||
| 4:30 PM | Leave for Lake House | ||||
| 4:45-8:00 PM | Lake House Dinner | ||||
| 8:00 PM | Return to Boston | ||||
| Thursday July 25 | 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 | |
| 10:30 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:45 AM | ISR science | Josh Semeter | |||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Group Work | ||||
| 3:00 PM | Data analysis and fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | Data analysis and fitting 2 | ||
| 5:30 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) | ||
| 6:30 PM | End | ||||
| Friday July 26 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | 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 | Stratospheric Warming | Larisa Goncharenko | |||
| 1:45 PM | Group work | ||||
| 6:30 PM | End | ||||
| Saturday July 22 | 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 | ||||
| Depart |