Georgia Tech: Space-Based Radar

Space-Based Radar

Program ID: DEF 1002P
Program type: Short Courses (weekday)
CEUs: 2.9

Location/
(Accommodations)

Program Administrator

Start

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Status

Cost

Country Inns & Suites, Denver
(Country Inns & Suites, Denver)

Mr. Samuel Piper

March 8, 2010

March 12, 2010

$1,795.00

Section ID: 10191/220410389

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):
•Monday, March 8, 2010 (1:00 PM-5:00 PM)
•Tuesday, March 9, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)
•Wednesday, March 10, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)
•Thursday, March 11, 2010 (8:00 AM-5:00 PM)
•Friday, March 12, 2010 (8:00 AM-12:00 PM)

Course Description

Explore theory, applications, and orbital considerations for both synthetic aperture radar and moving target indication modes. Examine space-based radar technology issues, including electronically scanned antennas, waveforms, tracking, and on-board processing. Examine actival space-based radar systems to understand design choices.

Who Should Attend

Engineers, scientists, and managers

How You Will Benefit

Understand design constraints for space-based radar
Analyze the synthetic aperture radar mode
Analyze ground-moving target indication radar

What You Will Cover

Radar Principles
Space-Based Radar Waveform Trades
Radar Principles - Pulse Doppler Processing
Space-Based Radar Timeline
Orbital Considerations for Space-Based Radar
Rendezvous Radars, Altimeters, and Scatterometers
Space Weather Effects on Space-Based Radar
Space-Based Radar Clutter and Interference
ERS-1, ERS-2, Envisat, JERS, ALOS
RADARSAT-1, RADARSAT-2
SAR-Lupe, TerraSAR-X, TerraSAR-L
Space-Based Radar Trade-Offs
Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar
Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar Signal Processing
Digital Terrain Models and 3D Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
Space-Based Radar Signal Processor Sizing
Space Antenna Technology
Space-Based Radar Signal Processing
Fundamentals of Adaptive Radar
Adaptive Detection Techniques for Space-Based Radar
Bistatic Radar in Space
GMTI and Synthetic Aperture Radar Performance Prediction
Satellite Tool Kit Demonstration
Space-Based Radar Electronic Protection
Satellite System Engineering

Certificates

This course is:

A requirement for the Radar Systems Certificate if Phased Array Radar Systems is not taken
An elective for the Radar Systems Certificate if Phased Array Radar Systems is taken
An elective for the Modeling & Simulation Certificate
An elective for the Radar Signal Processing & Techniques Certificate

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course, however, Basic Radar Concepts, Principles of Modern Radar, or other introductory courses may be helpful for participants with limited radar experience.

The Instructors

Chris Bailey, Georgia Tech Research Institute research engineer, has experience in phased-array antenna design, analysis, and modeling, and phased-array radar-system engineering. His recent research efforts include digital beamforming, overlapped subarrays architectures, and low-power/low-cost arrays. Bailey has written numerous reports on phased array technology and authored the Radar Antenna chapter for Principles of Modern Radar (SciTech Publishing Inc., 2009). He holds a M.S.E.E. from Johns Hopkins and a B.S.E.E. from North Carolina State University.

Ryan Holman is a research engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute's Sensor and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory with experience in radar-signal processing, modeling and simulation, and radar-systems analysis. He is actively involved in image processing of synthetic-aperture radar data and analysis of tracking radar.

Byron Keel, a senior research engineer, is the head of the Signal Processing Branch of the Radar Systems Division of Georgia Tech Research Institute's Sensor and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory. 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.

William Melvin, a GTRI principal research engineer and director of the Adaptive Sensor Technology Project Office, specializes in sensor signal and array processing, modeling and simulation, and aerospace radar systems engineering, as well as directing research efforts on next generation sensor systems and adaptive processing methods. He holds three U.S. patents on adaptive radar technology.

Aram Partizian, a Georgia Tech Research Institute Sensor and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory senior research engineer, has been actively involved in the design, development, and field testing of radar; advanced electronic attack; and electronic protection technologies for more than 20 years. He specializes in the EP of coherent radar against deceptive and masking EA techniques.

Samuel O. Piper, a principal research engineer and chief of the Radar Systems Division of Georgia Tech Research Institute's Sensor and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, has performed radar systems engineering and analysis for ground-based, airborne, and space-based radar systems for more than 35 years, including a variety of applications such as surveillance, airborne intercept, missile seekers, altimeters, missile warning radars, and terrain mapping systems.

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.