Radar - Advanced

On completion of the module the student will be able to:

• Perform a detailed design and analysis of some specialist radar techniques and applications
• Design waveforms and critically evaluate their performance in a radar system
• Explain the various techniques of target recognition using radar together with their respective advantages, limitations and areas of technical difficulty
• Describe methods of image processing and the methods of exploiting SAR image data.

The course covers a broad range of advanced radar techniques and specialist applications, associated theory and design, and practical application. Topics cover:

• Pulse Doppler Radar - application (airborne Fire Control Radar (FCR))
• Millimetre Wave Radar - application (active seekers) Waveform Design
• Micro-Doppler radar and signature analysis
• Non Cooperative Target Recognition (NCTR).
• Clutter - application Maritime Surveillance Radar (MSR)
• Multi-Function Radar (MFR)
• Bistatic and multistatic radar
• 3D SAR, SAR image processing
• Over the Horizon (OTH) radar in the HF band
• Ultra-wide band (UWB) radar - application Ground penetrating radar (GPR)
• Track-While-Scan (TWS) – application (AEW)
• Differential Angle Tracking.