ISR SUMMER SCHOOL
July 27 - August 1, 2020
Virtual School
IS spectrum Java applet
visuamisr python toolkit, AMISR Matlab toolkit, AMISR IDL toolkit
Nygren paper on radar and alternating codes
Past years ISR school wiki pages
MIT small radar site
Date | Time (CDT) | Time (UT) | Topic | Lecturer | Activity | Video links | Document links | |||
Monday, July 27 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and introduction | Elizabeth Kendall | Review school format/purpose and online protocol. |
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8:10 | 13:10 | Technical Logistics | Ashton Reimer and Bill Rideout | Go over internet, computer, software, etc. issues. | ||||||
8:15 | 13:15 | Intro to the Ionosphere | Elizabeth Kendall | Group questions/group presentation | ||||||
9:15 | 14:15 | Radar 1/2: Physics and Signal Processing | Anthea Coster and Josh Semeter | Q&A | ||||||
10:15 | 15:15 | BREAK | ||||||||
10:30 | 15:30 | ISR Theory 1: The Short Intro to ISR | Anthea Coster and Bill Rideout | Radar as a Black Box | ||||||
11:30 | 16:30 | Madrigal Database | Bill Rideout | Review Madrigal exercises | ||||||
12:30 | 17:30 | BREAK | ||||||||
13:30 | 18:30 | Group Work - ISR Examples | Roger Varney and Elizabeth Kendall | 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 28 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and Logistics | Elizabeth Kendall | ||||||
8:05 | 13:05 | Radar 3: Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney | |||||||
9:05 | 14:05 | ISR Theory 2 | Phil Erickson | |||||||
10:05 | 15:05 | BREAK | ||||||||
10:20 | 15:20 | Experiment Design and Data Analysis | Roger Varney 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) | Anthea | Experiment design | ||||||
14:00 | 19:00 | Group Work (Block #2) | Elizabeth | 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 29 | 0:00 | 5:00 | Experiment #4 | Elizabeth | 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 | Elizabeth Kendall | |||||||
10:15 | 15:15 | NSF Facilities | Robb Moore | Live talk | ||||||
10:45 | 15:45 | ISR Science Highlights | Josh Semeter | |||||||
11:45 | 16:45 | BREAK | ||||||||
12:45 | 17:45 | Group Work (Block #1) | Anthea | Group work - retrieve data and begin | ||||||
14:45 | 19:45 | Group Work (Block #2) | Elizabeth | |||||||
16:45 | 21:45 | Mentor support end for the day | ||||||||
Thursday, July 30 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and Logistics | Elizabeth Kendall | ||||||
8:05 | 13:05 | Data Analysis and Fitting 1 | Ashton Reimer | |||||||
9:05 | 14:05 | Data Analysis and Fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | |||||||
10:05 | 15:05 | BREAK | Office hours? Breakout rooms? Mentor Shifts? | |||||||
11:00 | 16:00 | Group Work (Block #1) | Anthea | |||||||
13:00 | 18:00 | Group Work (Block #2) | Elizabeth | |||||||
15:00 | 20:00 | Mentor support end for the day | ||||||||
Friday, July 31 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and Logistics | Elizabeth Kendall | ||||||
8:05 | 13:05 | Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | |||||||
9:05 | 14:05 | Question and Answer | All Lecturers | |||||||
10:05 | 15:05 | BREAK | Office hours? Breakout rooms? Mentor Shifts? | |||||||
11:00 | 16:00 | Group Work (Block #1) | Anthea | |||||||
13:00 | 18:00 | Group Work (Block #2) | Elizabeth | |||||||
15:00 | 20:00 | Mentor support end for the day | ||||||||
Saturday, August 1 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and logistics | Elizabeth Kendall | ||||||
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 | Lecturers | Discussion and online Google Form | ||||||
12:00 | 17:00 | End School | ||||||||