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 (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

2021 ISR School Schedule
July 18-24, 2021
All times in CDT

During School
Date	Time (CDT)	Time (UT)	Topic	Lecturer	Activity	Youtube video	PDF slides
						Playlist for entire school
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	ISR as a Black Box	ISR Blackbox Overview	isr_blackbox_2021.pdf ISR Blackbox Exercises - Part 1 and 2
	9:15	14:15	Radar 1&2: Physics and Signal Processing	Anthea Coster/Josh Semeter	Q&A	Intro to Radar Physics Intro to Radar Signal Processing	Part_1_RADAR_PHYSICS_EM.pdf PART_2_RADAR_PHYSICS_RADAR.pdf PART_3_RADAR_PHYSICS_Pulses.pdf PART_4_RADAR_PHYSICS_DOPPLER.pdf Hard target example RadarSignalProcessing01_BasicOperation.pdf RadarSignalProcessing02_DopplerSpectrum.pdf RadarSignalProcessing03_IQDemodulation.pdf RadarSignalProcessing04_FourierConcepts.pdf RadarSignalProcessing05_ACFconstruction.pdf Radar exercises
	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	Basic and derived examples	07_isr_basic_derived_science_examples.pdf
	11:30	16:30	Madrigal Database	Bill Rideout	Review Madrigal exercises	Madrigal	Madrigal_isr_workshop_2021.pdf Install Hdfview Ex 1: PFISR example, Millstone example Ex 2: Web (Note: same as 2020 exercise) Ex 3: Scripts (Note: same as 2020 exercise)
	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		Phased Arrays	phasors.pdf phasedArrays1_Superposition.pdf phasedArrays2_FourierAnalogy.pdf phasedArrays3_SteeringLimits.pdf phasedArrays4_Types.pdf
	9:05	14:05	Radar 3: Statistical Signal Processing	Roger Varney		Statistical Signal Processing	radarStats1.pdf radarStats2.pdf radarStats3.pdf
	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?		PFISR options Millstone Hill options
	11:20	16:20	BREAK
	12:00	17:00	Group Work (Block #1)		Experiment design		Experiment submission form
	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		NSF_presentation
	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		ISR Theory	ISTheory1_ThomsonScatter.pdf ISTheory2_BraggScatter.pdf ISRtheory3.pdf ISTheory4_Power.pdf ISTheory5_Shapes.pdf IS Spectral Shape Exercises
	9:05	14:05	Data Analysis and Fitting 1	Ashton Reimer / Roger Varney		Data Analysis and Fitting (Talks 1-4)	01_introduction_2021.pdf 02_modeling_data_fitting_2021.pdf 03_errors_goodness_of_fit_2021.pdf 04_calibration_2021.pdf Summary_slides_fitting
	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		Data Analysis and Fitting (Talks 5 - 7)	05_fitting_examples.pdf 06_common_sense_isdata_interp.pdf 07_isr_basic_derived_science_examples.pdf
	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		Group1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6
	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	Presentation 6		Live presentation
	11:25	16:25	Discussion and online Google Form		Discussion and online Google Form
	12:00	17:00	End School