Advanced Developments in Radar

This two-day course is designed as an extension of the basic course or as a "stand alone" update for the more experienced student. The underlying principle and current achievements in each of these areas are presented: advanced signal processing, including pulse compression techniques and Doppler filtering, so essential in high performance airborne radar; antenna design, including "active" phased arrays, ultra-low sidelobe design and adaptive beam forming; the automatic data-processing techniques for constant-false-alarm-rate detection and for multitarget tracking; radar imaging techniques for synthetic aperture radar and for other target recognition approaches. The most ample current literature (conferences and journals) is used in this course, directing the student to valuable material for further study.

February 7

Morning Introduction and Background
· The nature of radar and the physics involved

· Concepts and tools required, briefly reviewed

· Modern applications of radar, pertinent developments previewed

Afternoon Advanced Signal Processing
· Pulse compression: matched filter theory, binary and polyphase codes, the search for optimality; mismatching; hybrid (phase and frequency) codes

· Doppler processing: Doppler principles, "coherent radar", vector processing, the digital filter; waveform considerations, ambiguity, ambiguity resolution

 · Surface and airborne radar distinction

· Polarimetry: clutter suppression and target enhancement; target classification

February 8

Morning Advanced Antenna Techniques
· Antenna and phased array theory, practice reviewed

· "Active" phased arrays; solid-state amplification in radar

· Sidelobe considerations generally, ultra-low sidelobe design

· Coherent sidelobe cancellation, extended to pattern adaptivity · Adaptivity in space and time: STAP

· The "synthetic" aperture: SAR and radar imaging, including interferometric (3-D) imaging.

Afternoon Advanced Data Processing
· Detection in clutter, threshold control schemes, CFAR

· Background analysis: clutter statistics, parameter estimation, clutter as a compound process

· Association, contacts to tracks

· Track estimation, filtering, adaptivity, multiple hypothesis testing, FAT: "feature aided" tracking

· Integration: multi-radar, multi-sensor data fusion

· Concluding discussion, course review

Although this course follows immediately on from the Radar Fundamentals course, it can be taken as a separate course in itself and caters for engineers, scientists, managers, technicians and others

Mr. Robert T. Hill received the BS (Iowa State University) and the MS (University of Maryland), both in EE, in 1957 and 1967. In 1960, after working in industry and as an Air Force officer, he began government civilian service, retiring in 1988, in the development of naval radar. He began teaching professional seminars in 1975, continuing today with many sponsors worldwide. He chaired the IEEE international radar conferences in 1975, 1980, 1985 and 1990, and continues in the organisation of those and related conferences abroad. He has written chapters of books, conference papers and magazine articles, and writes radar entries for the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.

Note: All fees are inclusive of 10% GST

Full Fee                                       $1000
Discounted                                 $700