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- 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
Please fill 2023 ISR Summer School Evaluation
Pictures ISR Summer School 2023
pictures (courtesy of Craig Heinselman)
pictures (courtesy of Asti Bhatt)
pictures (courtesy of Phil Erickson)
AMISR Experiment Design
ISR Summer School 2023 Experiment request
AMISR schedule of actual operations
PFISR beam positions
PFISR real time data display
SWPC web page
2023 Student Groups
Past years ISR school wiki pages
MIT small radar site
2023 NSF ISR Photo release form
| Date | Time | Topic for Exercises | Instructor | Videos | Slides | Exercises | ||||||||||
| Sunday July 16 | 6:30 PM | Dinner/Get-together | ||||||||||||||
| Monday July 17 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||||||||||||
| 8:30 AM | Introduction of participants | All | ||||||||||||||
| Computer needs and other logistics | Pablo Reyes | |||||||||||||||
| Group Assignments | ||||||||||||||||
| 9:15 AM | Introduction to the Ionosphere | Roger Varney | To make |
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| 10:00 AM | Break | |||||||||||||||
| 10:15 AM | ISR as a black box | Bill Rideout | ISR as a black box | ISR as a black box | ISR BlackBox Exercise | |||||||||||
| 11:00 AM | Radar Physics | Anthea Coster | Radar Physics | IntroToRadar.pdf2023 Radar Intro PART_2_RADAR_PHYSICS_RADAR.pdf PART_3_RADAR_PHYSICS_Pulses.pdf PART_4_RADAR_PHYSICS_DOPPLER.pdf
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| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||||||||||||
| 1:30 PM | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Craig Heinselman | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | RadarSignalProcessing_2023.pdf
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| 2:30 PM | ISR Data Examples | Asti Bhatt Roger Varney | Madrigal Database | Bill Rideout Pablo Reyes | Madrigal | Madrigal_isr_workshop_2023.pdf | ||||||||||
| Group work on | ISR ExamplesMadrigal Exercises | Ex 1: PFISR example, Millstone example Ex 2: Web interface Ex 3: Script interface | ||||||||||||||
| Groups present ISR Examples | ||||||||||||||||
| 3:30 PM | ISR Data Examples | Asti Bhatt Roger Varney | ISR Theory | |||||||||||||
| Group work on ISR Examples | ||||||||||||||||
| Groups present ISR Examples | 3:30 PM | Madrigal Database | Bill Rideout Pablo Reyes | |||||||||||||
| Group work on Madrigal Exercises | ||||||||||||||||
| 4:30 PM | Basics of Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | Phased Arrays | phasedArrays.pdf | ||||||||||||
| 5:00 PM | Statiscal Signal Processing + Experiment design | Asti Bhatt / Roger Barney | ||||||||||||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | |||||||||||||||
| Tuesday July 18 | 7:00 AM | Breakfast | ||||||||||||||
| 8:00 AM | Leave for Poker Flat | |||||||||||||||
| 9:00 AM | Poker Flat tour | |||||||||||||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch at Poker Flat | |||||||||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Group work on Experiment Design | |||||||||||||||
| 3:30 PM | Deadline to submit experiments | |||||||||||||||
| 4:00 PM | Travel back to University | |||||||||||||||
| 5:00 PM | Dinner | |||||||||||||||
| 6:00 PM | Student Time Block 1 (2 hrs) | All instructors attend Block 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 8:00 PM | Student Time Block 2 (2 hrs) | |||||||||||||||
| 10:00 PM | Student Time Block 3 (2 hrs) | |||||||||||||||
| Wednesday July 19 | 67:00 AM | Student | Time Blocktime block 4 (2 hrs) | |||||||||||||
| 7 | 8:30-9:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||||||||||||
| 8:30 AM | Data analysis and fitting 1 | Pablo Reyes|||||||||||||||
| 9: | 3000 AM | Data analysis and fitting 2 | Student time block 5 (2 hrs) | Phil Erickson | ||||||||||||
| 10 | 11: | 3000 AM | Break | Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney | Statistical Signal Processing | radarStats3.pdf | |||||||||
| 10 | 11: | 4530 AM | Open Question and Answer | ISR Theory | Phil Erickson | ISR Theory | ||||||||||
| 12: | 0030 PM | Lunch | ||||||||||||||
| 1: | 0030 PM | Auroral ScienceNSF facilities lecture | Don HamptonRoman Makarevich | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 2: | 4500 PM | Start of Group | workWork | ||||||||||||
| 6: | 0030 PM | Dinner | ||||||||||||||
| Thursday July 20 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||||||||||||
| Wednesday July 19 | 8:00 | Millstone run ends | ||||||||||||||
| 8:30 | Travel to Millstone | AM | Data analysis and fitting 1 | Pablo Reyes | Data analysis and fitting 1 | 02_modeling_data_fitting_2021.pdf 03_errors_goodness_of_fit_2021.pdf
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| 9:30 | Tour of Millstone | AM | Data analysis and fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | Data analysis and fitting 2 | |||||||||||
| 1210:00 | NSF facilities lecture | 30 AM | BreakRoman | 12:30 | Lunch at Millstone | |||||||||||
| 1:00 | Start of group work | |||||||||||||||
| 10:45 AM | Open Question and Answer | |||||||||||||||
| 4:00 | Lake/swimming/barbeque | |||||||||||||||
| 812:00 PM | Bus back to Boston UniversityLunch | |||||||||||||||
| Thursday July 20 | ||||||||||||||||
| 81:30 | Data analysis and fitting 1 | 00 PM | Auroral Science lecture | Don HamptonPablo Reyes | ||||||||||||
| (Josh is unavailble,) | ||||||||||||||||
| 91:30 | Data analysis and fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | 45 PM | Group work | ||||||||||||
| 10 | 6:30 PM | BreakDinner | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 7: | 45Open Question and Answer | Mid latitude science lecture | Phil Erickson, Asti Bhatt | 30 PM | MIT IAP “Cantenna” Small Radar discussion and demonstration | Phil Erickson | Build a small radar system (MIT Open Course) | ||||||||
| 12:00 | Lunch | |||||||||||||||
| Friday July 21 | 17:30 AM | Group workBreakfast | ||||||||||||||
| 48:30 AM | Advanced Phased Array/Eiscat-3D | Craig HeinselmanFree time (watch videos) |
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| 69:30 AM | DinnerOpen Question and Answer | |||||||||||||||
| Friday July 21 | 8:30 | Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | 10:15 AM | Break | |||||||||||
| 910:30 AM | Group workOpen Question and Answer | |||||||||||||||
| 1012:1500 PM | BreakLunch | |||||||||||||||
| 10:30 | 1:00 PM | Special topic lecture | Jintai LiGroup work | |||||||||||||
| Special lecture | Toshi | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | 1: | 0045 PM | LunchGroup work | |||||||||||||
| 16:30 PM | Group workDinner | |||||||||||||||
| Saturday July 22 | 67:30 | Dinner | AM | Breakfast | ||||||||||||
| Saturday July 22 | 8:30 AM | Group 5 1 Presentation | ||||||||||||||
| 9:00 AM | Group 1 2 Presentation | |||||||||||||||
| 9:30 AM | Group 3 Presentation | |||||||||||||||
| 10:00 AM | Break | |||||||||||||||
| 10:30 AM | Group 2 4 Presentation | |||||||||||||||
| 11:00 AM | Group 4 5 Presentation | |||||||||||||||
| 11:30 AM | Wrap-up and Review | |||||||||||||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||||||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Depart |