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]

Radar techniques to know how target detection is possible in presence of clutter as well as noise.

Target and clutter modelling for signal processing.

Advanced digital signal processing for radar systems.

Masters students will be able to know the operational principle of various radar systems and their present day signal processing advancements.

CO1: Able to carry out research and development of the RADAR systems design.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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M. I. Skolnik, Radar Systems, 3rd edition, Tata McGraw Hill , 2008

Hamish Meikle, Modern Radar Systems, 2nd Edition, ARTECH House, Inc, , 2014

Francois Le Chevalier, Principles of Radar and Sonar Signal Processing, Artech House , 2002