An Introduction to Radio and Space Science

An introductory course "Radio and Space Science"


Topics:

Space Techniques
Remote Sensing
Satellite Positioning
Radio Astrophysics
Microwave Engineering & MM and SubMM Technology
Fundamentals of Radar Systems & Radar Remote Sensing
Antenna Engineering
Radio Interferometry
Satellites in Communications and Navigation
Space Environment

Lecturer:
Siavash Iran Pour

Time:
On Thursdays at 18:00 (January- March 2007)

Place:
Adib Astronomical Training Center, Isfahan, Iran



For some of the references, please see:

Links to Space!

and the links on the right side of this blog



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References:


Lecture 1 (Space Techniques):

1- Rocket and SpaceTechnology

2- Basics of Space Flight (at JPL, NASA)

Please also see the course "Space Techniques" homepage at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden:

Space Techniques




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Lecture 2 (Remote Sensing):

1- "An Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing" (at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Also see the whole lecture notes on:

Remote Sensing in Environmental Science

and

Earth System Science Techniques

2- The course "Radar and Remote Sensing" home page at Chalmers University of Technology, Swedn

3- "Remote Sensing Tutorial" (at NASA)

4- "Tutorial: Fundamentals of Remote Sensing" (at Natural Resources Canada)



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Lecture 3 (Satellite Positioning):

1- "Satellite Navigation" (by Utrecht University, Netherlands)

2- "Introduction to the Global Positioning System for GIS and TRAVERSE"

3- "GPS Basics"

4- Lecture notes on "Satellite Positioning" (at Chalmers Univesity of Technology, Sweden)

5- "Principles of the Global Positioning System, Spring 2003" (at MIT, USA)



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Lecture 4 (Radio Astrophysics):

1- "Basics of Radio Astronomy" (JPL, NASA, US)

2- "Radio Astronomy Tutorial" (Haystack, MIT, US)

3- "Lecture Notes on Radio Astrophysics" (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Please aslo see:

"Astrophysical Processes" and "The Interstellar Medium" course homepages at Chalmers University of Technology

4- Lecture Notes on "Radio Astronomy- Radio Telescopes" (University of Glasgow, UK)

5- "Radio Astronomy Lecture Notes" (University of Leiden, Netherlands)

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Lecture 5 (Microwave Engineering & MM and SubMM Technology):


1- Lecture Notes on "Microwave Engineering in Communications" and "MM and SubMM Receiver Technology for Instrumentation" (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

2- "Introduction to Microwave" (Media Wiley)

3- "Principles of RF and Microwave Measurements" (Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, US)

4- "RF, RFIC & Microwave Theory, Design" (RFIC, UK)

5- "Extragalactic (Sub)millimeter Astronomy- Today and Tomorrow" (Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany)

6- "Introduction to Submillimeter Astronomy" (Charlotte Vastel’s Home Page, CESR, France)

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Lecture 6 (Fundamentals of Radar Systems & Radar and Remote Sensing):


1- Please refer to the lecture 2 (Remote Sensing) references, esp.:

"Radar and Remote Sensing" course homepage at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

2- "Radar Fundamentals" (PhD Thesis- Tatiana Mora Kuplich, University of Southampton)

3- "Tutorial: Radar Remote Sensing" (Natural Resources Canada, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing)

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Lecture 7 (Antenna Engineering):

1- Lecture Notes on "Electromagnetic Fields and Waves" (at Cornell University, US)

2- "Receivers, Antennas, and Signals" course homepage and the lecture notes (at MIT, US)

3- "Antennas for Telecommunications and Remote Sensing" handouts (at Stanford, US)

4- Lecture Notes on "Antenna Engineering" (at Chalmers, Sweden)

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Lecture 8 (Radio Interferometry):

1- "Interferometry in Radio Astronomy and Geodesy" Lecture Notes (at Chalmers, Sweden)

2- "Radio Astronomy" lectures (at Leiden, Netherlands)

3- "Low Frequency Radio Astronomy" Book (GMRT Project, Tata Inst., India)

4- "Very Long Baseline Interferometry and the VLBA" Book (1993 NRAOVLBI/VLBA Summer School, New Mexico, US)

5- "Principles of Radio Interferometry and VLBI" and "Space VLBI in Canada" (Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Canada)

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Lecture 9 (Satellites in Communications and Navigation):

1- Lecture Notes on "Satellites in Communications and Navigation" (at Chalmers, Sweden)

2- "Satellite Communications Tutorial" (RFIC, UK)

3- "Satellite Communications" (University of Genoa, Italy)

4- "Satellite Communication" (MIT, US)

Please also see the references of lecture 3 (Satellite Positioning)

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Lecture 10 (Space Environment):

1- "Space Environment" course homepage (at Chalmers, Sweden)

2- "Space Primer" (Air University, US)

Please also see:

"Space Environment Center" website

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Radio Astronomy and Space Science

"Radio- Space Science is a fascinating field of study."
It is a comprehensive field in Science which interfers with almost every other fields in Natrual Sciences like Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Earth Sciences, Biology, Chemistry and of course Mathematics. You are also involved with Electrical Engineering issues and topics, esp. Microwave, MM and sub MM and Antenna Engineering, Signal & Image Processing,...

Some of the research fields in "Radio- Space Science" are: Radio Astrophysics and Interestellar Medium, Radar and Remote Sensing, Satellite Communications, Satellite Positioning and Global Positioning System, Space Geodesy and Geodynamics, Antenna Engineering, VLA and VLBI, Receiver Technology and Instrumentation, Space Enviroment and Technology.

Now, what do you think?
Isn't it great!?
Everything in only one subject!



For more information, join the Google! Group "Radio and Space Science" on:
http://groups.google.com/group/Radio-SpaceScience

or the group on Yahoo!:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Radio_SpaceScience/



, and please also see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_astronomy
http://www.nrao.edu/whatisra/index.shtml
http://www.oso.chalmers.se/

Photo: Onsala Space Observatory, Gothenberg (Göteborg), Sweden