Pictures, Blogs, and tools
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 Ulrich 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 - OULU 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
Pdfs of all talks should be available in links below soon after the talk is given. If not, please email the speaker and ask them to send it to Bill Rideout (brideout@haystack.mit.edu).
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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
Demo python Madrigal ipython notebook
18:00 Shuttle to LAO
18:30 Dinner
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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 Enell lecture with details of EROS control files
13:45 Millstone Hill, Sondrestrom and PFISR modes during experiments (Phil Erickson, Mary McCready and Roger Varney)
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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)
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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10:30 Active ionospheric modification (Antti Kero)
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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