Radar Systems (Electronic Engineering)

University College London

Short course

In London

£ 1,500 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Location

    London

  • Class hours

    150h

  • Duration

    4 Days

This four-day short course/CPD module emphasises physical principles, modern radar systems and signal processing techniques (for both civilian and defence applications).
It's aimed at graduate-level engineers with a background in electronic engineering or physics.
The course is run by UCL's Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

Start date

On request

About this course

On completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:
Understand the essential principles of operating radar systems
Apply appropriate mathematical and computer models relevant to radar systems to calculate system performance, and assess the limitations of particular cases
Understand the design of radar signals, and FM radar
Understand the principles of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), its use in geophysical remote sensing and surveillance applications, and the digital processing used to form SAR images
Design simple radar systems and the associated signal processing, at block diagram level
Understand the principles of electronic warfare, stealth and counterstealth, and bistatic radar, and apply the appropriate design equations to calculate performance
Analyse the performance of simple tracking radar systems
Apply the relevant design equations to phased array antennae, and understand the advantages and constraints of phased array radar
Understand the principles of radio navigation systems (including secondary radar and GPS)

It's aimed at graduate-level engineers with a background in electronic engineering or physics.
You can use it to further your knowledge on radar systems or work towards gaining a Master's degree

The course runs over four days, followed by a three-hour tutorial and an optional two-and-a-half hour exam.
A certificate of attendance will be issued on completion for those who take the module but not the exam.
If you take and pass the exam you'll get a certificate stating this, which includes your pass level.

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Subjects

  • Radar
  • Signal processing
  • Electronic Engineering
  • Systems
  • Engineering
  • Electronic
  • Radar Systems
  • Systems Neuroscience
  • B-scope
  • PPI

Course programme

You'll cover the following areas during the course:

  • Introduction: historical background, radar terminology, radar band designations
  • The radar equation: point targets, radar cross section, distributed targets, propagation, coverage diagrams
  • Noise, clutter and detection: theory of detection, sea and land clutter models, CFAR processing
  • Displays: A-scope, B-scope, PPI, modern displays
  • Doppler radar and MTI: Doppler effect, delay-line cancellers, blind speeds, staggered PRFs, adaptive Doppler filtering
  • Pulse Doppler processing and STAP: airborne radar, high, low and medium PRF operation, space-time adaptive processing
  • Pulse compression: principles, the ambiguity function, the matched filter, chirp waveforms, SAW technology
  • Waveform design: nonlinear FM, phase codes, waveform generation and compression
  • FM radar: principles, radar equation, effect of phase and amplitude errors.
  • Synthetic aperture radar (SAR): principles, SAR processing, autofocus, spotlight mode, airborne and spaceborne systems and applications, interferometry, ISAR
  • Tracking radar: conical scan, monopulse, tracker, track-while-scan, Kalman filters
  • Avionics and radionavigation: air traffic control, primary and secondary radar, GPS
  • Phased array radar: phased array principles, array signal processing, multifunction radar, scheduling
  • Electronic Warfare: ESM, ECM, ECCM; super-resolution, IFM, types of jammers, calculation of performance, adaptive arrays, LPI radar
  • Stealth and counter-stealth: stealth techniques for aircraft and other target types, low frequency and UWB radar
  • Bistatic radar: bistatic geometry, bistatic radar equation, synchronisation, illuminators of opportunity
  • System design examples

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Radar Systems (Electronic Engineering)

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