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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

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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	IntroToIonosphere.pdf

	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	IntroToRadar.pdf 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

	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		radarStats2.pdf AMISR_experiment_design.pdf
	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	IS_Theory_2023.pdf is_spectral_shape_group_exercises.pdf

	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	01_introduction_2021.pdf 02_modeling_data_fitting_2021.pdf 03_errors_goodness_of_fit_2021.pdf 04_calibration_2021.pdf summary_slides_fitting.pdf
	9:30 AM	Data analysis and fitting 2	Phil Erickson	Data analysis and fitting 2	05_fitting_examples.pdf 06_common_sense_isdata_interp.pdf 07_isr_basic_derived_science_examples.pdf

	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) Tiny spectrum analyzer NanoVNA Vector Network Analyzer Doppler Process.ipynb Ranging Process.ipynb


Friday July 21	7:30 AM	Breakfast

	8:30 AM	Advanced Phased Array/Eiscat-3D	Craig Heinselman		Advanced Phase Array

	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

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