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| Date | Time | Topic for Exercises | Instructor | Videos | Slides | Exercises | |||
| Sunday July 17 | 8:30 | Introduction of participants | All | Welcome and Intro | |||||
| Computer needs and other logistics | Bill Rideout | ||||||||
| Group Assignments | |||||||||
| 9:15 | Introduction to the Ionosphere | Shikha | To make | Intro to Iono | |||||
| 10:00 | Break | ||||||||
| 10:15 | ISR as a black box | Bill Rideout | ISR as black box | ISR as black box | ISR Blackbox Exercise | ||||
| 11:00 | Radar Physics | Anthea Coster | Radar Physics |
PART_2_RADAR_PHYSICS_RADAR.pdf PART_3_RADAR_PHYSICS_Pulses.pdf PART_4_RADAR_PHYSICS_DOPPLER.pdf
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| 12:00 | Lunch | ||||||||
| 1:30 | Intro to Radar Signal Processing | Josh Semeter |
RadarSignalProcessing01_BasicOperation.pdf RadarSignalProcessing02_DopplerSpectrum.pdf RadarSignalProcessing03_IQDemodulation.pdf RadarSignalProcessing04_FourierConcepts.pdf | ||||||
| 2:30 | ISR Data Examples | Phil Erickson | |||||||
| Group work on ISR Examples | |||||||||
| Groups present ISR Examples | |||||||||
| 3:30 | Madrigal Database | Bill Rideout | Madrigal | Madrigal_isr_workshop_2021.pdf Ex 1: Millstone example Ex 2: Web exercise Ex 3: Scripts (Note: same as 2020 exercise) | |||||
| Group work on Madrigal Exercises | |||||||||
| 4:30 | Free time (watch videos for tomorrow) | ||||||||
| 6:30 | Dinner | ||||||||
| Monday July 18 | 8:30 | Statistical Signal Processing | Roger Varney | ||||||
| 9:30 | ISR Theory | Phil Erickson, Asti Bhatt | ISR Theory | ||||||
| 10:30 | Break | ||||||||
| 10:45 | Open Question and Answer | ||||||||
| 11:15 | Experiment Design | Phil Erickson | |||||||
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||||||||
| 1:30 | Group Work on Experiment Design | ||||||||
| 4:00 | Deadline to submit experiments | PM | Group 5: Limited Wide Reach NW Scan | ||||||
| 6:00 PM | Group 3: Limited Wide Reach NW Scan | ||||||||
| 8:00 PM | Group 4: Regional Vector | ||||||||
| 4: 00 AM | Group 2: Rapid Regional Rapid Regional | ||||||||
| 6:00 AM | Group 1: Rapid Regional | ||||||||
| evening/night/dawn | Student Time Blocks 1-5 | All lecturers attend Block 1 | Millstone Hill Realtime sites | ||||||
| Tuesday July 19 | 8:00 | Millstone run ends | |||||||
| 8:30 | Travel to Millstone | ||||||||
| 9:30 | Tour of Millstone | ||||||||
| 12:00 | NSF facilities lecture | Roman | |||||||
| 12:30 | Lunch at Millstone | ||||||||
| 1:00 | Start of group work | ||||||||
| 4:00 | Lake/swimming/barbeque | ||||||||
| 8:00 | Bus back to Boston University | ||||||||
| Wednesday July 20 | 8:30 | Data analysis and fitting 1 | Pablo Reyes | Data analysis and fitting 1 | 02_modeling_data_fitting_2021.pdf | ||||
| (Josh is unavailble,) | |||||||||
| 9:30 | Data analysis and fitting 2 | Phil Erickson | Data analysis and fitting 2 | ||||||
| 10:30 | Break | ||||||||
| 10:45 | Open Question and Answer | ||||||||
| Mid latitude science lecture | Phil Erickson, Asti Bhatt | ||||||||
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||||||||
| 1:30 | Group work | ||||||||
| 4:30 | Free time (watch videos) | ||||||||
| 6:30 | Dinner | ||||||||
| Thursday July 21 | 8:30 | Phased Arrays | Roger Varney | Phased Arrays | phasedArrays1_Superposition.pdf phasedArrays2_FourierAnalogy.pdf | ||||
| 9:30 | Open Question and Answer | ||||||||
| 10:15 | Break | ||||||||
| 10:30 | Group work | ||||||||
| Special lecture | Toshi | ||||||||
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||||||||
| 1:30 | Group work | ||||||||
| 6:30 | Dinner | ||||||||
| Friday July 22 | 8:30 | Group 1 Presentation | |||||||
| 9:00 | Group 2 Presenation | ||||||||
| 9:30 | Group 3 Presentation | ||||||||
| 10:00 | Break | ||||||||
| 10:30 | Group 4 Presentation | ||||||||
| 11:00 | Group 5 Presentation | ||||||||
| 11:30 | Wrap-up and Review | ||||||||
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||||||||
| Depart |