Lecturers
- Anthea Coster - MIT - ajc@haystack.mit.edu
- Craig Heinselman - Univ. of Alaska - cjheinselman@alaska.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
- Don Hampton Univ. of Alaska dhampton@alaska.edu
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
2023 Student Groups
Past years ISR school wiki pages
MIT small radar site
2023 NSF ISR Photo release form
| Date | Time | Topic for Exercises | Instructor | Videos | Slides | Exercises |
| Sunday July 16 | 6:30 PM | Dinner/Get-together | ||||
| Monday July 17 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 8:30 AM | Introduction of participants | All | ||||
| Computer needs and other logistics | Pablo Reyes | |||||
| Group Assignments | ||||||
| 9:15 AM | Introduction to the Ionosphere | Roger Varney | To make |
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| 10:00 AM | Break | |||||
| 10:15 AM | ISR as a black box | Bill Rideout | ISR as a black box | ISR BlackBox Exercise | ||
| 11:00 AM | Radar Physics | Anthea Coster | PART_2_RADAR_PHYSICS_RADAR.pdf PART_3_RADAR_PHYSICS_Pulses.pdf PART_4_RADAR_PHYSICS_DOPPLER.pdf
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| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
| 1:30 PM | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Craig Heinselman |
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| 2:30 PM | Madrigal Database | Bill Rideout Pablo Reyes | ||||
| 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 | Asti Bhatt Roger Varney | ||||
| Group work on ISR Examples | ||||||
| Groups present ISR Examples | ||||||
| 4:30 PM | Basics of Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | ||||
| 5:00 PM | Statiscal Signal Processing + Experiment design | Asti Bhatt / Roger Barney | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | |||||
| Tuesday July 18 | 7:00 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 8:00 AM | Leave for Poker Flat | |||||
| 9:00 AM | Poker Flat tour | |||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch at Poker Flat | |||||
| 1:00 PM | Group work on Experiment Design | |||||
| 3:30 PM | Deadline to submit experiments | |||||
| 4:00 PM | Travel back to University | |||||
| 5:00 PM | Dinner | |||||
| 6:00 PM | Student Time Block 1 (2 hrs) | All instructors attend Block 1 | ||||
| 8:00 PM | Student Time Block 2 (2 hrs) | |||||
| 10:00 PM | Student Time Block 3 (2 hrs) | |||||
| Wednesday July 19 | 6:00 AM | Student time block 4 (2 hrs) | ||||
| 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||||
| 8:00 AM | Student time block 5 (2 hrs) | |||||
| 10:30 AM | Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney | ||||
| 11:00 AM | ISR Theory | Phil Erickson | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
| 1:30 PM | NSF facilities lecture | Roman Makarevich | ||||
| 2:00 PM | Start of Group Work | |||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | |||||
| Thursday July 20 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 8:30 AM | Data analysis and fitting 1 | Pablo Reyes |
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| 9:30 AM | Data analysis and fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | ||||
| 10:30 AM | Break | |||||
| 10:45 AM | Open Question and Answer | |||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
| 1:00 PM | Auroral Science lecture | Don Hampton | ||||
| 1:45 PM | Group work | |||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | |||||
| Friday July 21 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 8:30 AM | Advanced Phased Array/Eiscat-3D | Craig Heinselman |
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| 9:30 AM | Open Question and Answer | |||||
| 10:15 AM | Break | |||||
| 10:30 AM | Group work | |||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
| 1:00 PM | Special topic lecture | Jintai Li | ||||
| 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 | |||||
| 1:00 PM | Depart |