Lecturers
- Anthea Coster - MIT - ajc@haystack.mit.edu
- Craig Heinselman - Univ. of Alaska - cjheinselman@alaska.edu
- Josh Semeter - Boston University - jls@bu.edu
- Katherine Cariglia - MIT - cariglia@mit.edu
- Roger Varney - UCLA - rvarney@atmos.ucla.edu
- Asti Bhatt - SRI - asti.bhatt@sri.com
- Phil Erickson - MIT - pje@mit.edu
- Pablo Reyes - SRI - pablo.reyes@sri.com
Video introductions to the various ISR facilities
- 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
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
2024 Student Groups
Past years ISR school wiki pages
MIT small radar site
2024 NSF ISR Photo release Form
| Date | Time | Topic for Exercises | Instructor | Videos | Slides | Exercises |
| Monday July 22 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 8:30 AM | Introduction of participants | All | ||||
| Computer needs and other logistics | Bill Rideout/Katherine Cariglia | |||||
| Group Assignments | ||||||
| 9:15 AM | Introduction to the Ionosphere | Roger Varney | To make | |||
| 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 | Asti Bhatt | Radar Physics | PART_2_RADAR_PHYSICS_RADAR.pdf PART_3_RADAR_PHYSICS_Pulses.pdf PART_4_RADAR_PHYSICS_DOPPLER.pdf | ||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
| 1:00 PM | NSF Facilities Lecture | Roman Makarevich | ||||
| 1:30 PM | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Craig Heinselman | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Intro_Radar_Signal_Processing_2024.pdf | ||
| 2:30 PM | Madrigal Database | Katherine Cariglia/Pablo Reyes/Lara Kamal | Madrigal | Madrigal_ISR_School_2024.pdf | ||
| Group work on Madrigal Exercises | Ex 1: PFISR example, Millstone example Ex 2: Web interface Ex 3: Script interface | |||||
| 3:30 PM | ISR Data Examples | Phil Erickson/Asti Bhatt | ISR Theory | |||
| Group work on ISR Examples | ||||||
| Groups present ISR Examples | ||||||
| 4:30 PM | Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney | Phased Arrays | phasedArrays.pdf | ||
| 5:00 PM | Experiment design | Asti Bhatt | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | |||||
| Tuesday July 23 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 8:30 AM | Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney/Josh Semeter | ||||
| 9:30 AM | ISR Theory | Phil Erickson | ||||
| 10:30 AM | Break | |||||
| 11:00 AM | High-latitude Science | Asti Bhatt/Toshi Nishimura | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
| 1:00 PM | Experiment Design/Tonight's Space Weather Forecast | Anthea Coster/Asti Bhatt | ||||
| 1:20 PM | Group work on Experiment Design | |||||
| 3:00 PM | Deadline to submit experiments | |||||
| 5:00 PM | Student Time Block 1 (2 hrs) | All instructors attend Block 1 | ||||
| 7:00 PM | Student Time Block 2 (2 hrs) | |||||
| 9:00 PM | Student Time Block 3 (2 hrs) | |||||
| Wednesday July 24 | 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 | |||||
| 11:00 AM | Introduction to Haystack | Phil Erickson | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch at Haystack | |||||
| 1:00 PM | Space Weather | Anthea Coster | ||||
| 2:00 PM | Tours of Haystack | |||||
| 4:30 PM | Leave for Lake House | |||||
| 4:45-8:00 PM | Lake House Dinner | |||||
| 8:00 PM | Return to Boston | |||||
| Thursday July 25 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 8:30 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 | ||
| 9:30 AM | Data analysis and fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | Data analysis and fitting 2 | |||
| 10:30 AM | Break | |||||
| 10:45 AM | ISR science | Josh Semeter | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
| 1:00 PM | Group Work | |||||
| 5:30 PM | MIT IAP “Cantenna” Small Radar discussion and demonstration | Phil Erickson | ||||
| 6:30 PM | End | |||||
| Friday July 26 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 8:30 AM | Phased Array/EISCAT_3D | Craig Heinselman | Advanced_Phased_Array_2024.pdf | |||
| 9:30 AM | Open Question and Answer | |||||
| 10:15 AM | Break | |||||
| 10:30 AM | Group work | |||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
| 1:00 PM | Stratospheric Warming | Larisa Goncharenko | ||||
| 1:45 PM | Group work | |||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | |||||
| Saturday July 22 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 8:30 AM | Group 1 Presentation | |||||
| 9:00 AM | Group 2 Presentation | |||||
| 9:30 AM | Group 3 Presentation | |||||
| 10:00 AM | Break | |||||
| 10:30 AM | Group 4 Presentation | |||||
| 11:00 AM | Group 5 Presentation | |||||
| 11:30 AM | Wrap-up and Review | |||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
| Depart |