ISR School 2021
ISR SUMMER SCHOOL
July 19-23, 2021
Virtual School
https://tinyurl.com/2021ISR
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
- Phil Erickson - MIT - pje@mit.edu
- Josh Semeter - Boston University - jls@bu.edu
Video introductions to the various ISR facilities
- Jicamarca, Peru
- AMISR virtual tour
- Millstone Hill, USA
- Arecibo ISR, Puerto Rico
- Resolute Bay AMISR (RISR) construction, Canada
Tools
- 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
Past years ISR school wiki pages
MIT small radar site
| 2021 ISR School Schedule | |||||
| July 18-24, 2021 | |||||
| All times in CDT | |||||
| During School | |||||
| Date | Time (CDT) | Time (UT) | Topic | Lecturer | Activity |
| Monday, July 19 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and introduction | Review school format/purpose and online protocol. | |
| 8:10 | 13:10 | Technical Logistics | Ashton Reimer and Bill Rideout | Go over internet, computer, software, etc. issues. | |
| 8:15 | 13:15 | ISR Theory 1: The Short Intro to ISR | Bill Rideout | Radar as a Black Box | |
| 9:15 | 14:15 | Radar 1&2: Physics and Signal Processing | Anthea Coster/Josh Semeter | Q&A | |
| 10:15 | 15:15 | BREAK | |||
| 10:30 | 15:30 | ISR Data - what does it look like? | Phil Erickson | Range vs altitude, individual profile vs. 2D profile, [e-]/Te/Ti | |
| 11:30 | 16:30 | Madrigal Database | Bill Rideout | Review Madrigal exercises | |
| 12:30 | 17:30 | BREAK | |||
| 13:30 | 18:30 | Group Work - ISR Examples | Give groups ISR examples to discuss. Mentors in Zoom | ||
| 14:30 | 19:30 | Group Presentations of Examples | live Zoom | ||
| 15:30 | 20:30 | Conclude Day | |||
| Tuesday, July 20 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and Logistics | ||
| 8:05 | 13:05 | Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | ||
| 9:05 | 14:05 | Radar 3: Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney | ||
| 10:05 | 15:05 | BREAK | |||
| 10:20 | 15:20 | Experiment Design | Ashton Reimer and Bill Rideout | Live instruction with a few slides and mostly questions? | |
| 11:20 | 16:20 | BREAK | |||
| 12:00 | 17:00 | Group Work (Block #1) | Experiment design | ||
| 14:00 | 19:00 | Group Work (Block #2) | Experiment design | ||
| 16:00 | 21:00 | Deadline to submit Experiments | |||
| 18:00 | 23:00 | Experiment #1 | Groups run 2-hour experiments on PFISR | ||
| 20:00 | 1:00 | Experiment #2 | Groups run 2-hour experiments on PFISR | ||
| 22:00 | 3:00 | Experiment #3 | Groups run 2-hour experiments on PFISR | ||
| Wednesday, July 21 | 0:00 | 5:00 | Experiment #4 | Groups run 2-hour experiments on PFISR | |
| 2:00 | 7:00 | Experiment #5 | Groups run 2-hour experiments on PFISR | ||
| 10:10 | 15:10 | Welcome and Logistics | |||
| 10:15 | 15:15 | NSF Facilities | Roman Makarevich | Live talk | |
| 10:45 | 15:45 | ISR Science Highlights | Josh Semeter | ||
| 11:45 | 16:45 | BREAK | |||
| 12:45 | 17:45 | Group Work (Block #1) | Group work - retrieve data and begin | ||
| 14:45 | 19:45 | Group Work (Block #2) | |||
| 16:45 | 21:45 | Mentor support end for the day | |||
| Thursday, July 22 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and Logistics | all need to present. did group work work. Q&A tomorrow. | |
| 8:05 | 13:05 | ISR Theory 2 | Phil Erickson / Roger Varney | ||
| 9:05 | 14:05 | Data Analysis and Fitting 1 | Ashton Reimer / Roger Varney | ||
| 10:05 | 15:05 | BREAK | Office hours? Breakout rooms? Mentor Shifts? | ||
| 11:00 | 16:00 | Group Work (Block #1) | |||
| 13:00 | 18:00 | Group Work (Block #2) | |||
| 15:00 | 20:00 | Mentor support end for the day | |||
| Friday, July 23 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and Logistics | ||
| 8:05 | 13:05 | Data Analysis and Fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | ||
| 9:05 | 14:05 | Question and Answer | |||
| 10:05 | 15:05 | BREAK | Office hours? Breakout rooms? Mentor Shifts? | ||
| 11:00 | 16:00 | Group Work (Block #1) | |||
| 13:00 | 18:00 | Group Work (Block #2) | |||
| 15:00 | 20:00 | Mentor support end for the day | |||
| Saturday, July 24 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and logistics | ||
| 8:05 | 13:05 | Presentation 1 | Group | Live presentation | |
| 8:35 | 13:35 | Presentation 2 | Group | Live presentation | |
| 9:05 | 14:05 | BREAK | |||
| 9:15 | 14:15 | Presentation 3 | Group | Live presentation | |
| 9:45 | 14:45 | Presentation 4 | Group | Live presentation | |
| 10:15 | 15:15 | BREAK | |||
| 10:25 | 15:25 | Presentation 5 | Group | Live presentation | |
| 10:55 | 15:55 | Conclusion and Evaluations | Discussion and online Google Form | ||
| 12:00 | 17:00 | End School |