Lecture Material:

The lectures slides and exercices in pdf format can be found in ILIAS. The passwort for the ILIAS course will be given in the lecture.

Covered Topics:

• Short historical review of the development in radar
• Basic principles 
• Reflection of electromagnetic waves
• Radar equation
• Information content in radar signals
• Noise, resolution and accuracy 
• Radar Systems overview and classification
• Continuous Wave radar (CW-radar), Doppler mode, frequency modulated contiuous wave radar (FM-CW-radar) 
• Pulsed radar 
• Different modes of operations, pulse compression techniques to increase the resolution of the radar without loosing its sensitivity 
• Practical application: the use of a pulsed radar to identify moving targets (MTI-radar). 
• Radar signal wave-forms (pulse, chirp, staggered, hopping, OFDM).
• RadCom: communication with radar
• MIMO Radar
• Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) (generation of two- and three-dimensional radar images): Theoretical concepts, different implementations of SAR-processors 
• Practical applications: airborne SAR, space-borne SAR
• Ground penetration radars to detect buried objects 
• Interferometric SAR´s to generate digital elevation models
• Radar Cross Section (RCS): Characterization of the scattering and reflection of targets
• Measurement system for the radar cross section
• Scattering behaviour of simple targets  and complex targets
• Principles of reducing the radar cross section

Contact Person:

M.Sc. Umut Utku Erdem

M.Sc. Taewon Jeong