AMISR Experiment Design
ISR Summer School 2024 Experiment request
Uncalibrated RISR-N Jul23-24, 2024 data link
AMISR schedule of actual operations
PFISR beam positions
PFISR real time data display
SWPC web page
2024 Student Groups
Past years ISR school wiki pages
MIT small radar site
2024 NSF ISR Photo release Form
Digisonde Data Base (choose PF765 for Poker) link
| Date | Time | Topic for Exercises | Instructor | Videos | Exercises |
| July 14 | 9:00 AM | Introduction of participants | All | ||
| Computer needs and other logistics | Pablo Reyes | ||||
| Group Assignments | |||||
| 9:45 AM | ISR as a black box | K Cariglia | ISR as a black box | ISR Black Box Exercise | |
| 10:30 AM | Madrigal Database | K Cariglia/Pablo Reyes | Madrigal | ||
| Work on Madrigal Exercises - only web exercises | split into groups - instructor/group, everyone does the exercise | Ex 1: PFISR example, Millstone example Ex 2: Web interface Ex 3: Script interface | |||
| 11:30 AM | Break | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Introduction to the Ionosphere | Roger Varney | IntroToIonosphere.pdf | ||
| 12:45 PM | Radar Physics | Asti Bhatt | Radar Physics | RADAR_PHYSICS_2024.pdf | |
| 1:30 PM | Open Q&A | All | |||
| 2:00 PM | End | ||||
| Sunday July 20 | 6:30 PM | Welcome dinner/Meet & greet | |||
| Monday July 21 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Introduction, setting up school expectations | Andrey, Mildred, Asti | |||
| schedules, logistics, answering open question, etc. | all | ||||
| 9:15 AM | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Craig/Josh | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | RadarSignalProcessing_2024_comp.pdf | |
| 10:00 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:15 AM | ISR Data Examples | Asti Bhatt/Roger Varney | |||
| Group work on ISR Examples | |||||
| Groups present ISR Examples | |||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Basics of Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | Phased Arrays | phasedArrays.pdf | |
| 1:30 PM | Statistical Signal Processing basics + Experiment design | Asti Bhatt/Roger Varney | |||
| 2:00 PM | Group work on Experiment Design | ||||
| 5:00 PM | Deadline to submit experiments | ||||
| 5:00 PM | Dinner | ||||
| 6:00 PM | Student Time Block 1 (2 hrs) | All lecturers attend Block 1 | |||
| 8:00 PM | Student Time Block 2 (2 hrs) | ||||
| 10:00 PM | Student Time Block 3 (2 hrs) | ||||
| Tuesday July 22 | 7:00 AM | Student Time Block 4 (2 hrs) | |||
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast | ||||
| 9:00 AM | Student Time Block 5 (2 hrs) | ||||
| 11:30 AM | Leave for Poker Flat | ||||
| 12:30 PM | Lunch at Poker Flat | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Poker Flat tour | Poker Flat overview | |||
| PFISR | |||||
| 3:30 PM | Guest Lecture from Don | Optical Lab | |||
| Lidar Lab | |||||
| 5:00 PM | Travel back to University | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | ||||
| Wednesday July 23 | 8:00 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 9:00 AM | Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney | Statistical Signal Processing | radarStats3.pdf | |
| 9:30 AM | ISR Theory | Phil Erickson | ISR Theory | IS_Theory_2024.pdf | |
| 10:00 AM | NSF facilities lecture | Roman Makarevich | |||
| 11:30 AM | Open Q&A | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:30 PM | Start of group work | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | ||||
| Thursday July 24 | 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 | |
| 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 | Guest Lecture | Doga Ozturk | |||
| 1:45 PM | Group work | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | ||||
| 7:30 PM | MIT IAP “Cantenna” Small Radar discussion and demonstration | Phil Erickson | NanoVNA Vector Network Analyzer Small and Short-Range Radar Systems (Greg Charvat) Principles of Modern Radar: Basic Principles (Radar, Sonar, and Navigation) (Mark Richards) | ||
| Friday July 25 | 7:30 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Advanced Phased Array/EISCAT-3D | Craig Heinselman | Advanced Phased Array comp.pdf | ||
| 9:30 AM | Open Question and Answer | ||||
| 10:15 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:30 AM | Group work | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Lecture | Josh Semeter | |||
| 1:45 PM | Group work | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | ||||
| Saturday July 26 | 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 | ||||
| Depart | |||||