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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 | ||||||||
| 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_2026.pdf | ||||||
| 17:00 PM | Open Q&A | All | ||||||||
| 17:30 PM | End | Sunday July 19 | 6:30 PM | Welcome dinner/Meet & greet | ||||||
| Monday July 20 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||||||
| 8:30 AM | Introduction, Expectations, Logistics | Andrey Krywonos | ||||||||
| 9:00 AM | Opening Remarks - NSF Program Director | Lina Patino | ||||||||
| 9:15 AM | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Josh Semeter | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Radar_SignalProcessing_2025.pdf | ||||||
| 10:15 AM | Break | |||||||||
| 10:30 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 | ||||||||
| 8:00 PM | Student Time Block 2 (2 hrs) | |||||||||
| 10:00 PM | Student Time Block 3 (2 hrs) | |||||||||
| Tuesday July 21 | 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 Hill | |||||||||
| 11:00 AM | Introduction to Haystack | Phil Erickson | ||||||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch at Haystack | |||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Midlatitude and Sub-auroral Subauroral Science using IS Radars | Haystack Geospace Group | ||||||||
| 2:00 PM | Tours of Haystack | |||||||||
| 4:30 PM | Leave for Lake House | |||||||||
| 4:00 PM | PFISR Tour | |||||||||
| 5:00 - 7:00 PM | Lake House dinner (pizza) and swimming | |||||||||
| 7:30 PM | Bus departs for Boston | |||||||||
| Wednesday July 22 | 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 | ||||||
| 11:30 AM | Open Q&A | |||||||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Start of group work | |||||||||
| 6:00 PM | End | |||||||||
| Thursday July 23 | 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 | |||||||||
| 11:00 AM | Extracting Ionospheric Features from Long-Term Observations | Yue Deng | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||
| 65:30 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 2524 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||||||
| 8:30 AM | Advanced Phased Array/EISCAT-3D | Craig Heinselman | Advanced Phased Array comp.pdf | Intro to Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | |||||
| 9: | 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 | |||||||
| 12:45 00 PM | Group work | |||||||||
| 6:30 00 PM | DinnerEnd | |||||||||
| Saturday July 2625 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||||||
| 8:30 AM | Group 5 PresentationTEC from ISR (Gr-5).pdfPresentation 1 | |||||||||
| 9:00 AM | Group 3 Presentation 2 | NRAWHAL Final Presentation.pdf | ||||||||
| 9:30 AM | Group 1 Presentation | 3 | ||||||||
| 10:00 AM | Break | |||||||||
| 10:30 AM | Group 4 Presentation ISR Summer School Group 4.pptxne_fan_plot_animation.mp4 | |||||||||
| 11:00 AM | Group 2 PresentationISR Presentation 2025 Group 2.pdfPresentation 5 | |||||||||
| 11:30 AM | Wrap-up and Review | |||||||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Depart | |||||||||