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Lecture Location:
3:00 - 4:15 Tu-Th,
Room 109, Engineering Laboratory Building (tentative - not yet established)
Prerequisites:
Familiarity and
understanding of basic concepts expected of a senior or beginning graduate
student, to include background in signals and systems, signal processing,
probability and statistics, electronics, and electromagnetics. ECE 5630 -
Introduction to Signal Processing, ECE 5810 - Microwave Engineering I, ECE 6010
- Stochastic Processes, (or their equivalents), are desirable, but NOT
required.
Required Texts:
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"Understanding Radar Systems," Simon Kingsley and Shaun Quegan, SciTech Publishing, 1999. ISBN 9781891121050. An excellent text that covers the basics of radar in a clear and concise manner. Comes with many worked examples as well as solutions to the end of chapter problems. Also covers many more advanced topics as well. |
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"Radar Foundations for Imaging and Advanced Concepts," Roger J. Sullivan, SciTech Publishing, 2004. ISBN 9781891121227. Another excellent text that covers a range of topics from basic to advanced, including imaging and synthetic aperture radar (SAR), as well as other advanced topics. |
Recommended Supplements:
While these
books are not required, if you plan on doing anything serious in radar, you
should also have the following texts on your book shelf. With these available to
you, you should be able to understand any basic radar topic, as well as many
advanced ones.
"Radar Principles," Peyton Z. Peebles, Wiley Interscience, 1998. ISBN 0-471-25205-0. An excellent text that covers many topics to a level of detail not found in many other introductory radar texts. Probably the best overall introductory book at the graduate level. However, does not cover some topics of current interest, such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems.
"Radar Principles," Nadav Levanon, Wiley Interscience, 1988. ISBN 0-471-85881-1. Although not the largest book in number of pages, and lacking some of the motivational or application type of material to be found in the Peebles or Skolnik text, it has one of the clearer expositions on Matched Filters, Ambiguity Functions and Signal Coding of any radar text out there. The combination of this book and the Peebles text contains all the basics you'll need for this course. If you understand the material in these two books, you're ready to begin work in the radar industry. Very good complement to Peebles (or Skolnik) and highly recommended.
"Introduction to Radar Systems, 3rd ed.," Merrill I. Skolnik, McGraw-Hill, 2001. ISBN 0-07-290980-3. One of the original texts, written by one of the early pioneers. Very good for covering system level aspects of radar systems. The third edition is the best yet.
"Introduction to Airborne Radar, 2nd. ed.," George W. Stimson, SciTech Publishing, 1998. ISBN 1891121014. Also available as a CD-ROM. Simply the best general introduction to basic radar principles there is. Not highly mathematical, but the explanations and illustrations illuminate these principles better than any other book out there. With this book plus one of the others above, you can speak radar like an expert.
"Radar Handbook, 2nd ed.," Merrill I. Skolnik, McGraw-Hill, 1990. ISBN 0-07-057913-X. Twenty-five chapters covering just about everything you ever wanted to know about radar and radar systems, written by experts in the various fields. Note that there are significant differences between this edition and the first. If you have the first edition, it is worth getting the second, but don't get rid of the first edition. I have both and there are things in the first edition that didn't make it into the second edition that I still find useful.
"Radar Engineer's Sourcebook," William C.
Morchin, Artech House, 1993. ISBN
0-89006-559-4. A practical, hands-on reference, modeled after the IEEE Radar
Systems Panel Cumulative Index on Radar Systems. Contains information on such
radar topics as antennas, radar range equation, clutter, propagation, Radar
Cross Section (RCS), radar detection, signal design and processing, signals in
noise, laser radars, meteorological radars, MTI systems, and Synthetic Aperture
Radars (SAR). Consider this to be the Schaum's Outline version of Skolnik's
Radar Handbook. A nice addition to the bookshelf.
"Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing," Mark A. Richards, McGraw-Hill, 2005. ISBN 0-07-144474-2. An excellent intermediary text that covers the gap between fundamental texts like Peebles, Levanon and Skolnik, and more advanced and specialized texts on radar signals (Chen, Guerci, or Klemm) and synthetic aperture radar signal processing (Carrara et al. or Jakowatz et al.). If you want to take the next step in understanding radar signals and their processing, start here with the work of one of the experts in the trenches.
These and many other texts are available in the reserve shelves in the library. For list of what is on reserve, go to the USU Library Electronic Reserve Page.
For additional radar-related texts, check out the link for Course
and other texts on the Reference Material Page.
Recommended Software: You will be using MATLAB to develop radar system performance modeling tools. One of the smartest things you could do, if you plan on doing extensive work on Radar and data applications or Digital Signal/Image Processing is to get your own copy of the Student edition of MATLAB. Release R2009a is the latest version. With this on your computer, you can free yourself from the computer lab.
Another suitable tool for radar system performance modeling is Mathcad by the company Mathsoft. This program is more interactive than MATLAB, and is thus very well suited to developing what-if design packages.
Day to day, I use (and recommend) both packages. The Mathcad worksheets give you a better "view" of what is going on in the development of modeling scenarios, especially while you are in the cut and try design stage of putting an analysis package together. Plus, you can see the intermediate results in a more straightforward fashion. On the other hand, when I know what I want to do and how I want a package to operate, I like the GUI interface possible with MATLAB. I consider these two packages to be complementary and it is worth your time to learn how to use both. However, for this course, we will stick to one package - MATLAB. If you are not familiar with programming in MATLAB, start out by looking at the demos that come with the package, or check out my Tutorial page, and select the MATLAB link.
Syllabus: We will be covering four large topic areas: 1) fundamentals of radar systems (K&Q Ch 1-3; S Ch 1-2), 2) radar detection theory, radar signals, and radar waveforms (K&Q Ch 4-6; S Ch 4), 3) radar propagation, the atmosphere, and target RCS (K&Q Ch 8-9; S Ch 3), and 4) the different types of radar systems and their applications (K&Q 7, 10-13; S Ch 5, 6-8). The bulk of the course will be on the first three topic areas. Then we'll look at applications such as Tracking and SAR systems.
Grading: We are going to have a midterm (25%), homework (20%), a research paper (20%) and a programming project (35%) that will take the place of a final exam.
Reading
and HW Assignments - Not yet posted
Reference
Material: Other Useful Information - Not yet posted
Radar
Links: Useful Links related to Radar - Not yet posted
Supplemental Material, to include Handouts and information on the class projects - a research paper and a programming project. - Not yet posted
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Last Updated: 10/07/2009