2019 ISR School

Monday

09:00 Shuttle from Oulu train station to Pikku-Syöte
11:00 Arrive at Pikku-Syöte, Check-in, accommodate everyone 12:00 Lunch
13:00 Welcome (Thomas Ulich, Elizabeth Kendall)

•  Introduction of participants and instructors (Thomas Ulich and Elizabeth Kendall)
• Addressing computer needs and other logistics (Thomas Ulich and Bill Rideout)
• Group assignments (Thomas Ulich and Elizabeth Kendall)

13:45 Introduction to the Ionosphere (Anita Aikio)
14:30 Radar as a Black Box (Bill Rideout)
15:15 Coffee Break
15:45 Radar 1: Radar Physics (Anthea Coster)
16:30 ISR Theory 1: The Short Introduction to Incoherent Scatter (Anita Aikio) 17:15 Ionosphere – Radar Data Examples (Anita Aikio)

17:30 Madrigal Database and Group Work (Bill Rideout) 19:00 Dinner

Tuesday

07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Ionosphere – Radar Data Example Discussion (Anita Aikio)
08:45 Radar 2 (Ilkka Virtanen)
09:30 Radar 3: Statistical Signal Processing (Roger Varney)
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 ISR Theory 2 (Roger Varney)
11:30 Interpreting Incoherent Scatter Radar Data (Ian McCrea)
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Experiment Design and Data Analysis (Carl-Fredrik Enell, Roger Varney and Bill Rideout) 14:15 Arecibo, and Jicamarca modes during experiments (Elizabeth Kendall)
14:30 Experiment Design (group work)
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Experiment Design (group work)
18:00 Deadline to submit group experiments
19:00 Start of Experiment Night – see separate timetable

• (16 UTC to 22 UTC, 2 h per group, 2 groups parallel, 19 LT - 01 LT)
•  Dinner – interleaved with experiments

Wednesday

07:30 Breakfast
08:30 EISCAT Scientific Association (Craig Heinselman)
09:00 The NSF Upper Atmosphere Facilities Program (Carrie Black, via video link) 09:30 ISR Theory 3 (Ian McCrea)
10:15 Retrieve radar data and start to work on group assignments (incl. Coffee Break) 12:00 Lunch
13:00 Excursion
19:00 Banquet

Thursday

07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Pitfalls in Geophysical Data: Dealing with Errors (Thomas Ulich) 09:15 Data Analysis and Fitting 1 (Ashton Reimer and Roger Varney) 10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Data Analysis and Fitting 2: (Carl-Fredrik Enell)
11:15 ISR Science Highlights (Ian McCrea et al.)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 History of Radar (including some facts about SGO; Thomas Ulich) 13:30 Work on assignment and presentation (incl. Coffee Break)
19:00 Dinner

Friday

07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Question and answer session (all)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Active ionospheric modification (Antti Kero)
11:15 Phased arrays (Craig Heinselman)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 AMISR (Roger Varney)
13:30 EISCAT_3D (Craig Heinselman)
14:00 Work on assignments and presentations (incl. Coffee Break) 19:00 Dinner

Saturday

07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Student presentations (3x30 min)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Student presentations (3x30 min)
12:00 Conclusions, Evaluations, and Closing Discussions
12:30 Lunch and packing
14:00 Departure: Shuttle from Pikku-Syöte to Oulu train station