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| Date | Time | Topic for Exercises | Instructor | Videos | Exercises | |||||||||
| Time in ET for July 9 | ||||||||||||||
| July 9 | 12:00 PM | Introduction of participants | Andrey Krywonos | |||||||||||
| Group Assignments | Andrey Krywonos | |||||||||||||
| Computer needs and other logistics | Pablo Reyes | |||||||||||||
| 12:30 PM | ISR as a black box | Phil Erickson | ISR as a black box | |||||||||||
| 13:15 PM | Madrigal Database | K Cariglia/Pablo Reyes | Madrigal | |||||||||||
| Work on Madrigal Exercises - only web exercises | split into groups - instructor/group, everyone does the exercise | Data examples: PFISR example, Millstone example Ex 1: Web interface Ex 2: Script interface Ex 3: MadrigalWeb exercises | ||||||||||||
| 14:30 PM | Break | |||||||||||||
| 15:00 PM | Introduction to the Ionosphere | Roger Varney | Intro_Ionosphere.pdf | |||||||||||
| 16:00 PM | Radar Physics | Asti Bhatt | Radar Physics | RADAR_PHYSICS_2025.pdf | ||||||||||
| 17:00 PM | Open Q&A | All | ||||||||||||
| 17:30 PM | End | |||||||||||||
| Sunday July 2019 | 6:30 PM | Welcome dinner/Meet & greet (Geophysical Institute)greet | ||||||||||||
| Monday July 2120 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||||||||||
| 8:30 AM | Introduction, setting up school expectations | Andrey , Mildred, AstiKrywonos | ||||||||||||
| schedules, logistics, answering open question, etc. | all | 9:00 AM | Opening Remarks - NSF Program Director | Tai-Yin HuangLina Patino | ||||||||||
| 9:15 AM | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Craig/Josh Semeter | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Radar_SignalProcessing_2025.pdf | ||||||||||
| 10:00 15 AM | Break | |||||||||||||
| 10:15 30 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 2221 | 74:00 AM | Student Time Block 4 (2 hrs) | ||||||||||||
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast | 96:00 AM | Student Time Block 5 (2 hrs) | |||||||||||
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast | |||||||||||||
| 911:30 AM | Leave for Poker Flat | 12:30 PM | Lunch at Poker Flat | Haystack/Millstone Hill | ||||||||||
| 11:00 AM | Arrive at Millstone Hill | |||||||||||||
| 11:00 AM | Introduction to Haystack | Phil Erickson | ||||||||||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch at Haystack | |||||||||||||
| 2:00 PM | Tours of Haystack | |||||||||||||
| 4:30 PM | Leave for Lake House | 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 - 7:00 PM | Return to UAF | Lake House dinner (pizza) and swimming | ||||||||||||
| 76:30 PM | DinnerBus departs for Boston | |||||||||||||
| Wednesday July 2322 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||||||||||
| 8:30 AM | Statistical Signal Processing | Josh Semeter/Roger Varney | Statistical Signal Processing | |||||||||||
| 10:00 AM | Break | |||||||||||||
| 10:15 AM | ISR Theory | Phil Erickson | ISR Theory | IS Theory 2025.pdf | ||||||||||
| 11:15 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 | Data_analysis_and_fitting_part1.pdf 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 | Extraction of Plasma Parameters from Non-Thermal Ion Distributions using Incoherent Scatter Radar | RSSTalkFInal.pptx | ||||||||||
| 11:30 AM | Open Q&A | |||||||||||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Guest Lecture | Doga Ozturk | Bridging Input and Evaluation: Leveraging PFISR Data in I-T Modelling Studie | Dsozturk_ISR2025_Drivers.pdf | ||||||||||
| 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 | ISR_Science_2025.pdf | |||||||||||
| 1:45 PM | Group work | |||||||||||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | |||||||||||||
| Saturday July 26 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||||||||||
| 8:30 AM | Group 5 Presentation | TEC from ISR (Gr-5).pdf | ||||||||||||
| 9:00 AM | Group 3 Presentation | NRAWHAL Final Presentation.pdf | ||||||||||||
| 9:30 AM | Group 1 Presentation | |||||||||||||
| 10:00 AM | Break | |||||||||||||
| 10:30 AM | Group 4 Presentation | |||||||||||||
| 11:00 AM | Group 2 Presentation | ISR Presentation 2025 Group 2.pdf | ||||||||||||
| 11:30 AM | Wrap-up and Review | |||||||||||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Depart | |||||||||||||