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Video introductions to the various ISR facilities
- Jicamarca, Peru
- AMISR virtual tour
- Millstone Hill, USA
- Arecibo ISR, Puerto Rico
- Resolute Bay AMISR (RISR) construction, Canada
Tools
- 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
Past years ISR school wiki pages
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| Date | Time (CDT) | Time (UT) | Topic | LecturerActivity | Video links | Other links | |||||||||||
| Monday, July 27 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and introduction | Elizabeth Kendall | Review school format/purpose and online protocol. |
| Intro_pdf | ||||||||||
| 8:10 | 13:10 | Technical Logistics | Ashton Reimer and Bill RideoutGo over internet, computer, software, etc. issues. | ||||||||||||||
| 8:15 | 13:15 | Intro to the Ionosphere | Elizabeth Kendall | Group questions/group presentation | Part 1 | ||||||||||||
| 9:15 | 14:15 | Radar 1/2: Physics Introductions to Radar and Radar Signal Processing | Anthea Coster and Josh Semeter | Q&A | |||||||||||||
| 10:15 | 15:15 | BREAK | |||||||||||||||
| 10:30 | 15:30 | ISR Theory 1: ISR as a blackbox, The Short Intro to ISR; Radar as black box | Anthea Coster and Bill Rideout | Bill Rideout and Anthea Coster | Radar as a Black Box simulations | ||||||||||||
| 11:30 | 16:30 | Madrigal Database | Bill Rideout | Review Madrigal exercises | Ex 2: Web Ex 3: Scripts | ||||||||||||
| 12:30 | 17:30 | BREAK | |||||||||||||||
| 13:30 | 18:30 | Group Work - ISR Examples | Roger Varney and Elizabeth Kendall | Give groups ISR examples to discuss. Mentors in Zoom | |||||||||||||
| 14:30 | 19:30 | Group Presentations of Examples | live Zoom | ||||||||||||||
| 15:30 | 20:30 | Conclude Day | |||||||||||||||
| Tuesday, July 28 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and Logistics | Elizabeth Kendall | |||||||||||||
| 8:05 | 13:05 | Radar 3: Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney | ||||||||||||||
| 9:05 | 14:05 | ISR Theory 2 | Roger Varney and Phil Erickson | ||||||||||||||
| 10:05 | 15:05 | BREAK | |||||||||||||||
| 10:20 | 15:20 | Experiment Design and Data Analysis | Roger Varney and Bill RideoutLive instruction with a few slides and mostly questions? | ||||||||||||||
| 11:20 | 16:20 | BREAK | |||||||||||||||
| 12:00 | 17:00 | Group Work (Block #1) | Anthea | Experiment design | |||||||||||||
| 14:00 | 19:00 | Group Work (Block #2) | Elizabeth | Experiment design | |||||||||||||
| 16:00 | 21:00 | Deadline to submit Experiments | |||||||||||||||
| 18:00 | 23:00 | Experiment #1 | Groups run 2-hour experiments on PFISR | ||||||||||||||
| 20:00 | 1:00 | Experiment #2 | Groups run 2-hour experiments on PFISR | ||||||||||||||
| 22:00 | 3:00 | Experiment #3 | Groups run 2-hour experiments on PFISR | ||||||||||||||
| Wednesday, July 29 | 0:00 | 5:00 | Experiment #4 | Elizabeth | Groups run 2-hour experiments on PFISR | ||||||||||||
| 2:00 | 7:00 | Experiment #5 | Groups run 2-hour experiments on PFISR | ||||||||||||||
| 10:10 | 15:10 | Welcome and Logistics | Elizabeth Kendall | ||||||||||||||
| 10:15 | 15:15 | NSF Facilities | Robb Moore | Live talk | Jicamarca, Peru Millstone Hill, USA Arecibo ISR, Puerto Rico | ||||||||||||
| 10:45 | 15:45 | ISR Science Highlights | Josh Semeter | ||||||||||||||
| 11:45 | 16:45 | BREAK | |||||||||||||||
| 12:45 | 17:45 | Group Work (Block #1) | Anthea | Group work - retrieve data and begin | |||||||||||||
| 14:45 | 19:45 | Group Work (Block #2) | Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| 16:45 | 21:45 | Mentor support end for the day | |||||||||||||||
| Thursday, July 30 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and Logistics | Elizabeth Kendall | |||||||||||||
| 8:05 | 13:05 | Data Analysis and Fitting 1 | Ashton Reimer | ||||||||||||||
| 9:05 | 14:05 | Data Analysis and Fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | ||||||||||||||
| 10:05 | 15:05 | BREAK | Office hours? Breakout rooms? Mentor Shifts? | ||||||||||||||
| 11:00 | 16:00 | Group Work (Block #1) | Anthea | ||||||||||||||
| 13:00 | 18:00 | Group Work (Block #2) | Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| 15:00 | 20:00 | Mentor support end for the day | |||||||||||||||
| Friday, July 31 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and Logistics | Elizabeth Kendall | |||||||||||||
| 8:05 | 13:05 | Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | ||||||||||||||
| 9:05 | 14:05 | Question and Answer | All Lecturers | ||||||||||||||
| 10:05 | 15:05 | BREAK | Office hours? Breakout rooms? Mentor Shifts? | ||||||||||||||
| 11:00 | 16:00 | Group Work (Block #1) | Anthea | ||||||||||||||
| 13:00 | 18:00 | Group Work (Block #2) | Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| 15:00 | 20:00 | Mentor support end for the day | |||||||||||||||
| Saturday, August 1 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and logistics | Elizabeth Kendall | |||||||||||||
| 8:05 | 13:05 | Presentation 1 | Group Live presentation5 | Group5_pdf | |||||||||||||
| 8:35 | 13:35 | Presentation 2 | Group 2 | Live presentation | Group2_pdf | ||||||||||||
| 9:05 | 14:05 | BREAK | |||||||||||||||
| 9:15 | 14:15 | Presentation 3 | Group Live presentation3 | Group3_pdf | |||||||||||||
| 9:45 | 14:45 | Presentation 4 | Group Live presentation1 | Group1_pdf | |||||||||||||
| 10:15 | 15:15 | BREAK | |||||||||||||||
| 10:25 | 15:25 | Presentation 5 | Group Live presentation4 | Group4_pdf | |||||||||||||
| 10:55 | 15:55 | Conclusion and Evaluations | LecturersDiscussion and online Google Form | ||||||||||||||
| 12:00 | 17:00 | End School | |||||||||||||||