Radar Fundamentals

Course #EC3615

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Est. completion in 3 months

Offered through Distance Learning

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Overview

This course will include the following topics: radar types such as CW and pulsed Doppler radar, radar range equation, basics of radar cross section, transmit power, EIRP, antenna gains, EM frequency spectrum, sources of losses such as propagation and implementation, receiver noise, noise figure, receiver sensitivity, range resolution, velocity resolution, detector schemes, detection and false alarm probabilities, RF/microwave device considerations, waveform design and ambiguity function. The course includes laboratory activities that are either software/Matlab and/or hardware-based.

Included in Degrees & Certificates

  • 292
  • 294

Prerequisites

  • EC2650
  • EC2400 or EC2410

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to describe and apply the following concepts in radar systems applications:

  • Energy, power, frequency domain and probability
  • Radar range equation
  • Unambiguous range, unambiguous velocity, range, and velocity resolutions
  • Propagation, noise
  • Noise figure, receiver sensitivity
  • RF/microwave considerations
  • Detection and false alarm probabilities
  • Matched filter, detection schemes
  • Waveform design, CW, pulsed Doppler
  • Ambiguity function