Fundamentals of radar systems (2 hours)
- propagating EM waves in space and time
- Doppler shift
- Range equation
- system structure
Signal Models (4 hours)
- Radar cross section of targets and clutter
- multipath
- statistical signal models, Swerling models
- advanced (compound) statistical signal models for clutter
- convolutional models in range and angle
- frequency domain models
Waveforms (9 hours)
- The ambiguity function
- Basic waveforms: simple pulse, LFM, coherent pulse train
- Coded waveforms: frequency, phase (biphase, Costas), MCW, step-freq
- Optimum waveforms for time delay, velocity, acceleration measurements
- Measurement accuracy, Cramer-Rao bounds
Sampling and quantization (3 hours)
- Sampling complex bandpass signals
- Sampling rates in range, angle, Doppler, space
- I/Q imbalance and correction techniques
- Digital I/Q
Doppler processing (6 hours)
- Matched filter (vector formulation)
- MTI as approximation to matched filter for unknown target velocity
- DFT/pulse Doppler approx to matched filter for known target velocity
- Improvement factor
- DPCA for airborne MTI
Optimal Detection (9 hours)
- Neyman-Pearson detection and the likelihood ratio
- threshold detection, targets in Gaussian noise
- coherent and noncoherent integration; binary integration
- Optimal detectors for non-Gaussian interference
- CFAR
Synthetic Aperture Radar (9 hours)
- The SAR principle from aperture, Doppler, chirp viewpoints
- SAR overview: system issues, range migration, processor structure
- SAR modes: strip map, spotlight, Doppler beam sharpening, Inverse SAR
- Spotlight SAR and polar format data collection
- Polar format processing
- Range migration and chirp scaling algorithms for spotlight SAR
- Autofocus: correlation, phase gradient algorithms
- Interferometric 3D SAR
TOTAL: 42 hours
