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- 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
- Matlab Script to download and plot Madrigal data.
Please fill 2025 ISR Summer School Evaluation
Pictures ISR Summer School 2025
Photos (courtesy of Craig Heinselman)
Photos (courtesy of Phil Erickson)
AMISR Experiment Design
ISR Summer School 2025 Experiment 2026 Experiment Request
AMISR schedule of actual operations
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PFISR real time data display
Millstone Hill ISR figures July 21-22, 2025 and Jupyter Notebook
SWPC web page
2025 Student 2026 Student Groups
Past years ISR school wiki pages
MIT small radar site
NSF ISR Photo release Form
UCF ISR Photo release Form
Digisonde Data Base (choose PF765 for Poker) linkVertical TEC Time Series figure 22-Jul-2025, data in hdf5, Jupyter notebook
All times for July 9 are Eastern Time
| 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_20252026.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, setting up school expectations, 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 | 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 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 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 | ||||||
| 11:15 30 AM | Open Q&A | |||||||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Auroral Science | Don Hampton | 1:45 PM | Start of group work | ||||||
| 6:30 00 PM | DinnerEnd | |||||||||
| Thursday July 2423 | 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 | |||||||||
| 1011:45 00 AM | Guest Lecture | Paul Bernhardt | Extraction of Plasma Parameters from Non-Thermal Ion Distributions using Incoherent Scatter Radar | Extracting Ionospheric Features from Long-Term Observations | Yue DengRSSTalkFInal.pptx | |||||
| 11:30 AM | Open Q&A | |||||||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Guest LectureDoga 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 PresentationQj.mp4Presentation 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 | |||||||||