Module 1: Design of Radar Transmitter and Receiver [4 hours]
- Radar Range Equation and System Performance
- Architecture and design considerations for radar transmitters for CW and pulse radars
- Characteristics and selection of antennas
- Radar system components and subsystems
- Analysis and design of transmitters and receivers, extraction of System Parameters
- Radar system performance analysis and design trade-offs
- Overview of radar system integration and testing
- Introduction to radar jamming techniques and countermeasures.

Module 2: SFCW Radar [6 hours]
- Principle of SFCW Radar
- Design Parameters of SFCW Radar
- System Performance factor
- Quadrature Detector and its error analysis, compensation techniques
- Signal processing for SFCW Radar
- Applications of SFCW Radar
- MM wave SFCW Radar

Module 3: FMCW Radar [10 hours]
- FMCW Radar waveforms and its processing
- Matched filer, Ambiguity functions
- Phase coded waveforms and its processing
- Accuracy of Radar measurements
- Processing a coherent Pulse Train
- Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR)

Module 4: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) [18 hours]
- SAR resolutions, matched filer, pulse compression
- SAR Imaging, range migrations, polarimetry
- ISAR techniques
- Strip Mode Data Processing
- Scan mode signal analysis and data processing
- Spot mode signal analysis and data processing

Module 5: Waveform Design and Diversity for Advanced Radar Systems [3 hours]
- CW waveforms for automotive radar systems
- Waveform design for multistatic radar
- Adaptive waveform design for radar target detection, tracking, and classifications
- Waveform design for join Radar and Wireless Communication

To introduce students to the principles and concepts of digital radar system design.

To provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the components and functions of digital radar systems

To equip students with the knowledge and skills required to design and analyze digital radar systems.

To foster critical thinking and problem-solving abilities through practical applications and projects in radar system design.

CO1: understand the basic principles and methods used in digital radar system.
CO2: analyze and design SFCW Radar.
CO3: analyze and design FMCW Radar.
CO4: analyze and design Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).
C05: analyze and evaluate performance of Radar Signals and Design Novel Signal for modern radar.

Nguyen, Cam, and Joongsuk Park, Stepped-frequency radar sensors: Theory, analysis and design, Springer International Publishing , 2016

Franceschetti, Giorgio, and Riccardo Lanari, Synthetic aperture radar processing, CRC press , 2018

[2] Gini, Fulvio, Antonio De Maio, and Lee Patton, eds, Waveform design and diversity for advanced radar systems., IET , 2012

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