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ECE6272 Course Syllabus
ECE6272
Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing (3-0-3)
- Prerequisites
- ECE 4270
- Corequisites
- None
- Catalog Description
- Signal modeling including radar cross section, multipath, and clutter. Properties of the ambiguity function and coded waveforms. Algorithms for doppler processing, detection, and radar imaging.
- Textbook(s)
- Richards, Mark , Radar Signal Processing (2nd edition), McGraw-Hill-Professional, 2014. ISBN 9780071798327 (required)
- Topical Outline
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
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