National Institute of Technology Rourkela

राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राउरकेला

ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରଯୁକ୍ତି ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାନ ରାଉରକେଲା

An Institute of National Importance

Syllabus

Course Details

Subject {L-T-P / C} : EC6418 : High Resolution and Imaging Radar { 3-0-0 / 3}

Subject Nature : Theory

Coordinator : Subrata Maiti

Syllabus

Module 1 :

Part 1: High Resolution Radar (selection of) Application of the Radar Range Equation to High-Resolution Radar, High-Resolution Radar Design High-Range-Resolution Waveforms and Processing Synthetic High-Range-Resolution Radar.
Part 2: Synthetic Aperture Radar (selection of) Synthetic Aperture Concepts SAR Signal Properties SAR Processing Algorithms (Range Doppler Algorithm Chirp Scaling Algorithm Omega-K Algorithm SPECAN Algorithm) Comparison of Algorithms Doppler Centroid Estimation Automatic Focusing Advanced concepts (Polarimetric SAR Interferometric SAR GMTI) Applications of SAR (Military, Earth Observation, Digital Terrain Elevation Models).
Part 3: Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (selection of)Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Concepts ISAR Geometry and Signal Modeling ISAR image formation (RF Front-End and Signal demodulation Radial motion compensation (Autofocusing) Image formation (Range-Doppler (RD), Joint Time-Frequency Analysis (JTFA), Back-projection) Interpretation of ISAR Images Image Autofocusing techniques (Parametric and non-parametric techniques Hot Spot Processing (Prominent Point Processing) Phase Gradient Autofocus (PGA) Image Contrast Based Autofocus (ICBA) Image Entropy Based Autofocus (IEBA)) Comparison of methods Time-window selection Cross range scaling ISAR imaging using CLEAN techniques Polarimetric ISAR Recent advances (Bistatic and multi-static ISAR, 3D ISAR).

Course Objective

1 .

To develop knowledge and skills on UWB Radar system

2 .

To know design aspect of SAR

Course Outcome

1 .

1) Understand principle of SAR, UWB Radar
2) Learn techniques of signal processing for imaging Radar.

Essential Reading

1 .

Dean L. Mensa, High Resolution Radar Imaging, Artech House Publishers , 2012

2 .

Curlander, John C., and Robert N. McDonough, Synthetic aperture radar, John Wiley & Sons, 1991 , Vol. 396. New York, NY, USA

Supplementary Reading

1 .

August W. Rihaczek, Principles of High-resolution Radar, Artech House Publishers

2 .

John J. Kovaly,, Synthetic aperture radar, Dedham, Mass., Artech House, Inc , 1976

Journal and Conferences

1 .

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

2 .

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing