Introduction to Radar and Electromagnetic Sensing

(3-0-0-3)

CMPE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Groups / Course Categories: Threads / ECE Electives

Course Coordinator: Morris B Cohen

Prerequisites: ECE 3025 [min D]

Catalog Description

Radar transmission, scattering, detection. Air traffic control, meteorological, others. Signal processing, doppler shifts, tracking, estimation, rain and clutter, atmospheric propagation, antennas. Remote sensing, LIDAR, SONAR.

Textbook(s)

Introduction to Radar Systems

Course Outcomes

Distinguish between different types of radars for different applications 

Analyze the building blocks to modern radars, including antennas, transmission schemes, atmospheric and ionospheric propagation, signal detection, estimation, tracking, noise and clutter reduction 

Identify the tradeoffs that underly radar design and implementation 

Analyze an existing radar system, synthesize the information and explain to an audience

Describe several application areas of radars for remote sensing

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

N/A

Topic List

  1. Introduction - Historical Perspective
  2. Radar Equation
    1. Detection in noisy data
    2. Radar cross section
    3. Pulsed radars
    4. Probability Density Function
    5. Ranging
  3. Detecting Moving Objects
    1. Doppler effect
    2. Delay lines
    3. Pulse Doppler radars
    4. Velocity and range estimation
    5. Tracking single and multiple objects
  4. Clutter
    1. Ground and sea clutter
    2. Rain and weather clutter
    3. Bird and insect clutter
  5. Atmospheric electromagnetic effects
    1. Maxwell's equations, wave propagation and power
    2. Atmospheric reflection and refraction
    3. Ionospheric reflection
  6. Radar antennas
    1. Conventional
    2. Phased array
  7. Special types of radars
    1. Synthetic aperture radar
    2. Over-the-horizon radar
    3. SONAR
    4. LIDAR