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Principles of Radar Target Identification

Program ID: DEF 3517P
Program type: Short Courses (weekday)
CEUs: 2.4

There are no sections available for registration to this course at this time.
If you want to request an offering of this course, please contact us.

This course is no longer offered to the public. If you would like to schedule an offering at your location, contact Bill Holm, course administrator, at bill.holm@dlpe.gatech.edu or 404-385-6158.

Course Description

Gain an intensive overview in the basic fundamental principles of radar detection, discrimination, and recognition of both moving and stationary targets in varied clutter backgrounds. Examine basic moving target indication, moving target identification, stationary target indication, and stationary target identification techniques. In almost all cases, radar systems employ spectral (Doppler) techniques to effect moving target indication and moving target identification, with the exception being for moving targets with small radial velocity components.

Unlike moving targets, the detection of stationary targets immersed in a clutter background is difficult task for a radar system. The radar must be able to sense geometrical features of the target that will enable the radar’s signal processor to discriminate these targets from surrounding clutter and other objects. Explore both radar Doppler and radar geometrical (imaging, polarimetric) processing techniques.

Who Should Attend

  • Engineers
  • Scientists
  • Executives
  • Managers
  • Pilots
  • Radar operators

How You Will Benefit

  • Review of basic radar principles
  • Learn fundamental stationary target identification principles
  • Learn fundamental moving target identification principles
  • Learn target identification fusion techniques
  • Know how to apply target identification techniques in a practical example
  • Understand the hardware and system impact of target identification techniques
  • Earn 2.4 CEUs

What You Will Cover

  • Basic Radar Principles
  • Radar Stationary Target Identification Fundamentals
  • Moving Target Identification Principles
  • Statistical Pattern Recognition Techniques
  • Target Identification Fusion
  • Stationary Target Identification Radar Design Example
  • Hardware and Systems Considerations

Course Materials

Participants receive a CD-ROM and hard copies of all course slides.

Certificate

This course is an elective for the Radar Signal Processing and Techniques Certificate.

Prerequisites

Some prior knowledge of radar technology (at the level of the Principles of Modern Radar short course) is recommended, but not required.

Security Requirements

Attendees must be U.S. citizens. Registrants may meet this requirement by submission of the Access Eligibility Form.

The Instructors

  • Bill Holm is director of Georgia Tech’s Defense Technology Professional Education program, assistant vice provost for Distance Learning and Professional Education, and principle research scientist at Georgia Tech Research Institute. He researches radar systems design and signal processing techniques and is the co-editor of Principles of Modern Radar (SciTech Publishing Inc., 2007).

  • Jim Scheer, a principal research engineer in Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, has more than 30 years of experience in the design and development of radar systems. He is researching radar systems design and signal processing techniques and is the co-editor of Principles of Modern Radar (SciTech Publishing Inc., 2007).

  • Mike Baden, a senior research engineer in Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications laboratory, has more than 20 years of radar experience with principle areas of interest including radar waveform design, target signature analysis, and ID algorithm development and evaluation.

  • Marvin N. Cohen, an IEEE fellow, principal research scientist and fellow of Georgia Tech Research Institute, is a co-author of Radar Design Principles, second edition (McGraw-Hill, 1991) and SciTech Publications (1999). He has published more than 120 technical reports and papers. With 26 years of experience, Cohen’s principle areas of research have been radar pulse compression, radar-based target identification, and identification fusion.

Course Administrator

For more information about this course or an offering at your location, contact the course administrator:

Bill Holm
404-385-6158
bill.holm@gatech.edu

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