Course Details

Subject {L-T-P / C} : EC6403 : Modern Radar Systems { 3-0-0 / 3}

Subject Nature : Theory

Coordinator : Prof. Lakshi Prosad Roy

Syllabus

MODULE-I: Introduction, Radar Basics, Radar Equation including its search and track forms, Displays, Receivers, Transmitters, Radar Antennas including Reflectors and Phased Array Antennas, [6 Hours]

MODULE-II: Radar Cross Section, Statistical Models for Noise and Target RCS, [5 Hours]

MODULE-III: General Characteristics of Clutter and Clutter Modelling, Clutter Reduction Techniques of Doppler and MTI, [11 Hours]

MODULE-IV: Radar Measurements, Pulse compression, Radar Tracking, Radar Detection and Target Classification, [8 Hours]

MODULE-V: Constant False Alarm Rate Detectors, DPCA and STAP. [5 Hours]

MODULE-VI: Types of Radar and Emerging Trends.. [3 Hours]

Course Objectives

Course Outcomes

CO1: Able to carry out research and development of the RADAR systems design. <br />CO2: Become well aware on variety of RADAR systems, their application in diverge fields and survey on respective technology developments including the recent low cost RADARS. <br />CO3: Able to do in-depth analysis on technology variations in RADAR depending on the application and involvement of signal processing, ASIC and FPGA development issues. <br />CO4: Acquire improvise the knowledge on physical layer of communication systems, signal generation technology, matched filtering, detection and estimation, statistical approaches of signal processing through rigorous analysis of RADAR sub-systems. <br />CO5: Computer control of Modern RADARs including antenna beam steering, null placement, weather forecasting are attractive to industry applications as military, airport, mining and Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), etc.

Essential Reading

Supplementary Reading