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Principles of Pulse-Doppler Radar

Program ID: DEF 3509P
Program type: Short Courses (weekday)
CEUs: 2.1

Location/
(Accommodations)		 Program Administrator Start End Status Cost
Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
(Georgia Tech Hotel)		 Mr. Aram Partizian February 16, 2010 February 18, 2010 Register here $1,595.00
Section ID: 10247/220410394

    NOTES:
  • -- On the first day, check in at least 30 minutes before the class start time.
  • -- Discount available for companies that send 3 or more people to this course. Call 404-385-3501 to register your group.
  • -- Georgia Tech employees should call 404-385-3501 to register by phone, and have their PeopleSoft number ready.

Meeting time(s):
•Tuesday, February 16, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)
•Wednesday, February 17, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)
•Thursday, February 18, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)

Course Description

Understand Pulse-Doppler radar and how it is used to detect moving targets in the presence of background clutter. Examine the Doppler shift, how Doppler frequency is measured by a coherent radar, and the range and Doppler extents of the interfering clutter from the perspective of an airborne radar. Explore the concepts of ambiguities and blind zones and their implications toward clutter folding, probability of detection, search time, and the need for pulse-repetition frequency variation. Examine three major PRF regimes - high, medium, and low.

Who Should Attend

  • Engineers
  • Scientists
  • Managers from industry and academia
  • Government organizations

How You Will Benefit

  • Understand the motivation for using Pulse-Doppler
  • Estimate the Range-Doppler extents of mainlobe and sidelobe clutter
  • Learn fundamental signal processing methods used in coherent radar
  • Learn the various forms of pulse-compression used in Pulse-Doppler modes
  • Understand the concepts of ambiguities, clutter folding, and blind zones
  • Recognize the relative strengths and limitations of high, medium, and low PRF operation
  • Generate blind zone charts and clutter spectra using models provided by course
  • Identify hardware-based performance limitations such as phase noise and channel imbalance
  • Understand objectives and principles of MTI, GMTI, and SAR modes

What You Will Cover

  • Basic Radar Concepts
  • The Doppler Shift and Clutter Spectrum
  • High, Medium, and Low PRF Regimes
  • MTI and Doppler Processing
  • Pulse Compression
  • Target Detection, Clutter, and CFAR
  • GMTI and Space-Time-Adaptive Processing
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Electronic Protection

Course Materials

Participants receive a handout of course slides.

Prerequisites

Students should have some prior exposure to basic radar concepts. Familiarity with signal processing theory is helpful for understanding certain topics but not essential for the course in general

Certificate

This course is an elective for the:

The Instructors

Dr. Marvin N. Cohen, a Fellow of the IEEE and Principal Research Scientist and Fellow of GTRI, is a co-author of the text Radar Design Principles, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1991 and SciTech Publications, 1999, and has published more than 120 technical reports and papers. His principle areas of research have been radar pulse compression, radar-based target identification, and identification fusion. He has 26 years of experience in these areas.

Dr. Byron Keel, a GTRI/SEAL Senior Research Engineer, is the head of the Signal Processing Branch of the Radar Systems Division. With more than 16 years of experience in radar system analysis, waveform design, and signal processing, Keel's research efforts include the design and analysis of wideband, pulse compression waveforms.

Dr. William L. Melvin, a GTRI principal research engineer and Director of the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, focuses a technology portfolio involving all aspects of sensor systems engineering. He specializes in sensor signal and array processing, modeling and simulation, and aerospace radar systems engineering. He holds three U.S. patents on adaptive radar technology and has published in excess of 135 technical articles.

Aram Partizian, a GTRI/SEAL senior research scientist, has been actively involved in the design, development, and field testing of radar, electronic attack, and electronic protection technologies for more than 22 years. He specializes in the development of radar electronic protection to counter coherent deceptive and masking electronic attack.

Mark A. Richards, a Principal Research Engineer and Adjunct Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the author of the Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing (McGraw-Hill, 2005). He is researching radar imaging and embedded real-time signal processors and has 20 years of experience in radar signal processing.

Dr. Greg Showman, a Senior Research Engineer and Director of the Adaptive Sensor Technology Program Office within the GTRI Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (SEAL), has over 20 years of experience in radar modeling, performance analysis, and signal processing algorithm development. His recent research areas include airborne and space-based imaging radar signal processing and EP algorithms to counter advanced EA.

Course Administrator

For additional information on this course or an offering at your location, contact the course administrator:

Mr. Aram Partizian
404-407-7631
aram.partizian@gtri.gatech.edu

Course Location and Times

  • Atlanta, Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
  • 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday

    • On the first day, check in at least 30 minutes before class start time.

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