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
Please fill 2023 ISR Summer School Evaluation
Pictures ISR Summer School 2023
pictures (courtesy of Craig Heinselman)
pictures (courtesy of Asti Bhatt)
pictures (courtesy of Phil Erickson)
AMISR Experiment Design
ISR Summer School 2023 Experiment request
AMISR schedule of actual operations
PFISR beam positions
PFISR real time data display
SWPC web page
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 | |||
| 10:00 AM | Break | |||||
| 10:15 AM | ISR as a black box | Bill Rideout | ISR as a black box | ISR as a black box | ISR BlackBox Exercise | |
| 11:00 AM | Radar Physics | Anthea Coster | Radar Physics | PART_2_RADAR_PHYSICS_RADAR.pdf PART_3_RADAR_PHYSICS_Pulses.pdf PART_4_RADAR_PHYSICS_DOPPLER.pdf | ||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |||||
| 1:30 PM | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Craig Heinselman | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | RadarSignalProcessing_2023.pdf | ||
| 2:30 PM | Madrigal Database | Bill Rideout Pablo Reyes | Madrigal | Madrigal_isr_workshop_2023.pdf | ||
| 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 | ISR Theory | |||
| Group work on ISR Examples | ||||||
| Groups present ISR Examples | ||||||
| 4:30 PM | Basics of Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | Phased Arrays | phasedArrays.pdf | ||
| 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 | 7:00 AM | Student time block 4 (2 hrs) | ||||
| 8:30-9:30 AM | Breakfast | |||||
| 9:00 AM | Student time block 5 (2 hrs) | |||||
| 11:00 AM | Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney | Statistical Signal Processing | radarStats3.pdf | ||
| 11:30 AM | ISR Theory | Phil Erickson | ISR Theory | |||
| 12:30 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 | Data analysis and fitting 1 | 02_modeling_data_fitting_2021.pdf 03_errors_goodness_of_fit_2021.pdf | ||
| 9:30 AM | Data analysis and fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | Data analysis and fitting 2 | |||
| 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 | |||||
| 7:30 PM | MIT IAP “Cantenna” Small Radar discussion and demonstration | Phil Erickson | Build a small radar system (MIT Open Course) | |||
| Friday July 21 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 8:30 AM | Advanced Phased Array/Eiscat-3D | Craig Heinselman | ||||
| 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 |