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PhilCraig's Smugmug page with ISR school photos
- Thomas' Smugmug page with ISR group photo
- Phil's Smugmug page
- Instructions to make small radar as demonstrated by Phil
- Feedback form
Lecturers
- Elizabeth Kendall - SRI - elizabeth.kendall@sri.com
- Thomas Ulich - U Oulu/SGO - thomas.ulich@sgo.fi
- Maxime Grandin, SGO, maxime.grandin@sgo.fi
- Anja Stromme - Norwegian Space Centre - anja.stromme@gmail.com
- Anthea Coster - MIT - ajc@haystack.mit.edu
- Craig Heinselman - EISCAT - craig.heinselman@eiscat.se
- Philip Erickson - MIT - pje@haystack.mit.edu
- Anita Aikio - U Oulu - Anita.Aikio@oulu.fi
- Antti Kero - U Oulu/SGO - antti.kero@sgo.fi
- Bill Rideout - MIT - brideout@haystack.mit.edu
- Ian McCrea - STFC - ian.mccrea@stfc.ac.uk
- Roger Varney - SRI - roger.varney@sri.com
- Mary McCready - SRI - mary.mccready@sri.com
- Esa Turunen - U Oulu/SGO - esa.turunen@sgo.fi
- Carl-Fredrik Enell - EISCAT - carl-fredrik.enell@eiscat.se
- John Meriwether - NSF - jmeriwet@nsf.gov
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Introduction of participants and instructors (Thomas Ulich)
Addressing computer needs and other logistics (Timo Rantala, Bill Rideout)
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09:30 Introduction to the ionosphere 1 (Anita Aikio)
10:15 Break
10:45 Radar as a black box (Bill Rideout)
11:30 Basic Radar 1 (Anthea Coster)
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Shuttle to SGO followed by brief tour of SGO by bus
14:00 Incoherent scatter radar theory 1 (Anja Strømme)
15:00 Ionosphere – radar data examples (Anita Aikio)
15:15 Break
15:45 Madrigal database and group work (Bill Rideout)
Group Exercise 1 - Web interface
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08:45 Basic Radar 2 (Roger Varney)
09:30 Incoherent scatter radar theory 2 (Phil Erickson)
10:15 Break
10:45 Incoherent scatter radar theory 3 (Phil Erickson and Anja Strømme)
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13:00 Experiment design, data analysis and fitting as well as EISCAT modes (Anja Strømme and Carl-Fredrik Enell)
Sondrestrom mode description as PDF
Millstone mode description as PDF
More detailed version of same Enell lecture with details of EROS control files
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14:00 EISCAT Scientific Association (Craig Heinselman)
14:30 The NSF Upper Atmosphere Facilities program (John Meriwether)
15:00 History of Radar (including some facts about SGO; Thomas Ulich)
Erickson talk on pulse compression as PDF
15:30 Retrieve radar data and start to work on group assignments (coffee available for break)
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08:30 Pitfalls in geophysical data: dealing with errors (Thomas Ulich)
09:15 Data analysis and fitting 2 (Roger Varney)
10:00 Break
10:30 Data analysis and fitting 3
- IS fitting (Phil Erickson)
- GUISDAP (Carl-Fredrik Enell)
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11:15 EISCAT Science (Esa Turunen, Ian McCrea, and Anita Aikio)
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Interpreting incoherent scatter radar data (Ian McCrea)
14:00 Work on assignment and presentation (coffee available for break)
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11:15 Phased arrays (Craig Heinselman)
12:00 Lunch
13:30 AMISR (Roger Varney)
AMISR talk as PDF (best if viewed in Adobe for movies)
14:00 EISCAT_3D (Craig Heinselman)
14:30 Work on assignments and presentations (coffee available for break)
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13:30 Student presentation (1x30 min)
14:00 Conclusions, Evaluations, and Closing Discussions
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