ISR SUMMER SCHOOL
July 27 - August 1, 2020
Virtual School
High latitude ISR Fact sheet
List of Groups (pdf)
Experiment proposals for all 6 groups
ISR school pictures (Craig Heinselman)
GUISDAP information page with link to download page:
https://www.eiscat.se/scientist/user-documentation/guisdap-9-0/
Direct link to download page:
https://www.eiscat.se/raw/GUISDAP/dist90/
Python program that plots ESR 32 m data on a map: https://github.com/cmeeren/eiscatscanplot
Map of Oulu
Lecturers
- Elizabeth Kendall - SRI - elizabeth.kendall@sri.com
- Anthea Coster - MIT - ajc@haystack.mit.edu
- Bill Rideout - MIT - brideout@haystack.mit.edu
- Roger Varney - SRI - roger.varney@sri.com
- Ashton Reimer - SRI - ashton.reimer@sri.com
- Thomas Ulich - SGO - thomas.ulich@sgo.fi
- Ilkka Vertanen - Oulu - ilkka.i.virtanen@oulu.fi
- Anita Aikio - Oulu - anita.aikio@oulu.fi
- Ian McCrea - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory -ian.mccrea@stfc.ac.uk
- Craig Heinselman - EISCAT - craig.heinselman@eiscat.se
- Carl-Fredrik Enell - EISCAT - carl-fredrik.enell@eiscat.se
- Antti Kero - SGO - antti.kero@sgo.fi
Tools
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
Nygren paper on radar and alternating codes
- Eiscat ISR lectures book
Past years ISR school wiki pages
MIT small radar site
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 ISR 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)
Group exercise 1: Web Interface
Group exercise 2: Writing scripts
Madrigal ipython notebook example
19:00 Dinner