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- 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
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Video introductions to the various ISR facilities
- Jicamarca, Peru
- AMISR virtual tour
- Millstone Hill, USA
- Arecibo ISR, Puerto Rico
- Resolute Bay AMISR (RISR) construction, Canada
Tools
- 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
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| Date | Time (CDT) | Time (UT) | Topic | Lecturer | Activity | Video links | Document links | Other links | |||||||||
| Monday, July 27 | 8:00 | 13:00 | Welcome and introduction | Elizabeth Kendall | Review school format/purpose and online protocol. |
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| Intro_pdf | |||||||||
| 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 | Part 1 | ||||||||||||
| 9:15 | 14:15 | Radar 1/2: Physics Introductions to Radar and Radar Signal Processing | Anthea Coster and Josh Semeter | Q&A | |||||||||||||
| 10:15 | 15:15 | BREAK | |||||||||||||||
| 10:30 | 15:30 | ISR Theory 1: ISR as a blackbox, The Short Intro to ISR | Anthea Coster and Bill Rideout | Radar as a Black Box | Bill Rideout and Anthea Coster | ||||||||||||
| 11:30 | 16:30 | Madrigal Database | Bill Rideout | Review Madrigal exercises | Ex 2: Web Ex 3: Scripts | ||||||||||||
| 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 | Roger Varney and 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 | Jicamarca, Peru Millstone Hill, USA Arecibo ISR, Puerto Rico | ||||||||||||
| 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 presentation5 | Group5_pdf | |||||||||||||
| 8:35 | 13:35 | Presentation 2 | Group 2 | Live presentation | Group2_pdf | ||||||||||||
| 9:05 | 14:05 | BREAK | |||||||||||||||
| 9:15 | 14:15 | Presentation 3 | Group 3 | Live presentation | Group3_pdf | ||||||||||||
| 9:45 | 14:45 | Presentation 4 | Group 1 | Live presentation | Group1_pdf | ||||||||||||
| 10:15 | 15:15 | BREAK | |||||||||||||||
| 10:25 | 15:25 | Presentation 5 | Group Live presentation4 | Group4_pdf | |||||||||||||
| 10:55 | 15:55 | Conclusion and Evaluations | Lecturers | Discussion and online Google Form | |||||||||||||
| 12:00 | 17:00 | End School | |||||||||||||||
Monday
09:00 Shuttle from Oulu train station to Pikku-Syöte
11:00 Arrive at Pikku-Syöte, Check-in, accommodate everyone 12:00 Lunch
13:00 Welcome (Thomas Ulich, Elizabeth Kendall)
- Introduction of participants and instructors (Thomas Ulich and Elizabeth Kendall)
- Addressing computer needs and other logistics (Thomas Ulich and Bill Rideout)
- Group assignments (Thomas Ulich and Elizabeth Kendall)
13:45 Introduction to the Ionosphere (Anita Aikio)
14:30 ISR as a Black Box (Bill Rideout)
15:15 Coffee Break
15:45 Radar 1: Radar Physics (Anthea Coster)
16:30 ISR Theory 1: The Short Introduction to Incoherent Scatter (Anita Aikio)
17:15 Ionosphere Radar Data Examples (Anita Aikio)
17:30 Madrigal Database and Group Work (Bill Rideout)
Exercise 1: Install Hdfview from https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdfview/ Look at two example Madrigal files:
Exercise 2: Web Interface
Exercise 3: Writing scripts
Madrigal ipython notebook example