Id: 042481 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3

Description

This course will cover the foundation of Radar Instrumentation & Signal Acquisition Fundamentals. Reviewing the concepts of radar, discussions of coherent detection will be conducted addressing the basics involving radar cross-section scattering (RCS) phenomenology and the connection between bandwidth and range/cross-range resolution as well as Doppler, clutter and the target environment. The signal acquisition methodologies and in-phase & quadrature (I,Q) demodulation techniques of instrumentation will be presented for pulsed, stepped and swept frequency systems along with the concepts of beam-forming and beam-steering phased array radars. Matrix representation of radar signature data will be formalized along with the techniques of manipulating the vector base data. Discussions will include the concepts of basis vectors, linear & circular representations of the transmitted and scattered electromagnetic signals and the mathematics of matrices. Laboratory instrumentation and structured experiments will provide and opportunity to practice the measurement techniques.

Prerequisites

PHYS.3530 Electromagnetism I, or PHYS.5530 Electromagnetism I, and PHIYS.3820 Mathematical Physics II.

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