ISR SUMMER SCHOOL
July 17-22, 2022
Boston University, Millstone Hill Observatory
https://tinyurl.com/2022ISR
Lecturers
- Shikha Raizada - University of Central Florida - shrai259@gmail.com
- Anthea Coster - MIT - ajc@haystack.mit.edu
- Josh Semeter - Boston University - jls@bu.edu
- Bill Rideout - MIT - brideout@haystack.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
Past years ISR school wiki pages
MIT small radar site
| Date | Time | Topic for Exercises | Instructor | Videos | Slides | Exercises |
| Sunday July 17 | 8:30 | Introduction of participants | All | |||
| Computer needs and other logistics | Bill Rideout | |||||
| Group Assignments | ||||||
| 9:15 | Introduction to the Ionosphere | Shikha | To make | Intro to Iono | ||
| 10:00 | Break | |||||
| 10:15 | ISR as a black box | Bill Rideout | ISR as black box | ISR as black box | ISR Blackbox Exercise | |
| 11:00 | Radar Physics | Anthea Coster | Radar Physics | PART_2_RADAR_PHYSICS_RADAR.pdf PART_3_RADAR_PHYSICS_Pulses.pdf PART_4_RADAR_PHYSICS_DOPPLER.pdf
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| 12:00 | Lunch | |||||
| 1:30 | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Josh Semeter | RadarSignalProcessing01_BasicOperation.pdf RadarSignalProcessing02_DopplerSpectrum.pdf RadarSignalProcessing03_IQDemodulation.pdf RadarSignalProcessing04_FourierConcepts.pdf | |||
| 2:30 | ISR Data Examples | Phil Erickson | ||||
| Group work on ISR Examples | ||||||
| Groups present ISR Examples | ||||||
| 3:30 | Madrigal Database | Bill Rideout | Madrigal | Madrigal_isr_workshop_2021.pdf Ex 1: Millstone example Ex 2: Web (Note: same as 2020 exercise) Ex 3: Scripts (Note: same as 2020 exercise) | ||
| Group work on Madrigal Exercises | ||||||
| 4:30 | Free time (watch videos for tomorrow) | |||||
| 6:30 | Dinner | |||||
| Monday July 18 | 8:30 | Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney | |||
| 9:30 | ISR Theory | Phil Erickson, Asti Bhatt | ISR Theory | |||
| 10:30 | Break | |||||
| 10:45 | Open Question and Answer | |||||
| 11:15 | Experiment Design | Phil Erickson | ||||
| 12:00 | Lunch | |||||
| 1:30 | Group Work on Experiment Design | |||||
| 4:00 | Deadline to submit experiments | |||||
| evening/night/dawn | Student Time Blocks 1-5 | All lecturers attend Block 1 | ||||
| Tuesday July 19 | 8:00 | Millstone run ends | ||||
| 8:30 | Travel to Millstone | |||||
| 9:30 | Tour of Millstone | |||||
| 12:00 | NSF facilities lecture | Roman | ||||
| 12:30 | Lunch at Millstone | |||||
| 1:00 | Start of group work | |||||
| 4:00 | Lake/swimming/barbeque | |||||
| 8:00 | Bus back to Boston University | |||||
| Wednesday July 20 | 8:30 | Data analysis and fitting 1 | Pablo Reyes | Data analysis and fitting 1 | ||
| (Josh is unavailble,) | ||||||
| 9:30 | Data analysis and fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | Data analysis and fitting 2 | |||
| 10:30 | Break | |||||
| 10:45 | Open Question and Answer | |||||
| Mid latitude science lecture | Phil Erickson, Asti Bhatt | |||||
| 12:00 | Lunch | |||||
| 1:30 | Group work | |||||
| 4:30 | Free time (watch videos) | |||||
| 6:30 | Dinner | |||||
| Thursday July 21 | 8:30 | Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | Phased Arrays | ||
| 9:30 | Open Question and Answer | |||||
| 10:15 | Break | |||||
| 10:30 | Group work | |||||
| Special lecture | Toshi | |||||
| 12:00 | Lunch | |||||
| 1:30 | Group work | |||||
| 6:30 | Dinner | |||||
| Friday July 22 | 8:30 | Group 1 Presentation | ||||
| 9:00 | Group 2 Presenation | |||||
| 9:30 | Group 3 Presentation | |||||
| 10:00 | Break | |||||
| 10:30 | Group 4 Presentation | |||||
| 11:00 | Group 5 Presentation | |||||
| 11:30 | Wrap-up and Review | |||||
| 12:00 | Lunch | |||||
| Depart |