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Adaptive Array Radar Processing

Program ID: DEF 3515P
Program type: Short Courses (weekday)
CEUs: 2.45

Location/
(Accommodations)		 Program Administrator Start End Status Cost
Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
(Georgia Tech Hotel)		 Dr. E. Jefferson Holder April 27, 2010 April 30, 2010 Register here $1,595.00
Section ID: 10105/220410353

    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, April 27, 2010 (8:30 AM-4:15 PM)
•Wednesday, April 28, 2010 (8:30 AM-4:15 PM)
•Thursday, April 29, 2010 (8:30 AM-4:15 PM)
•Friday, April 30, 2010 (8:30 AM-12:00 PM)

Course Description

Study in-depth adaptive signal processing algorithms and digital beamforming architectures that can be applied to any type of sensor array, with emphasis on radar applications. Explore adaptive jammer cancellation techniques starting with the Wiener filter. Examine angle-of-arrival estimation with monopulse and super-resolution techniques. Delve into hardware implementation issues and the effects of array errors on performance.

Who Should Attend

  • Scientists
  • Engineers
  • Managers

How You Will Benefit

  • Design digital beamforming architectures
  • Develop and evaluate adaptive algorithms
  • Implement adaptive monopulse
  • Implement high resolution angle estimation algorithms
  • Identify the impact of hardware errors on algorithm performance
  • Apply space-time adaptive processing for airborne radar applications

What You Will Cover

  • Radar Fundamentals
  • Beamforming Fundamentals
  • Array Antenna Theory
  • Theory of Adaptive Algorithms I, II
  • Array Architectures
  • Wideband Adaptive Arrays
  • Theory of Spatial Spectrum Estimation I, II
  • Adaptive Beamformers
  • ADBF/Spect. Est. Lab
  • Adaptive Monopulse
  • Wideband Cancellation
  • Adaptive Detection Theory
  • Adaptive CFAR Detection
  • Introduction to Space-Time Adaptive Processing
  • Space-Time Adaptive Processing Lab
  • Applications of Space-Time Adaptive Processing
  • Array Errors
  • Adaptive Arrays in Practice

Course Materials

Participants receive notebooks and a CD-ROM that includes MATLAB software and course notes.

Prerequisites

A basic familiarity with radar and signal analysis is helpful, but not required, since introductions to both areas are included in the course.

Certificates

This course is an elective of the

The Instructors

David D. Aalfs, senior research engineer in Georgia Tech Research Institute's Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, researches radar-signal processing algorithms and adaptive arrays. He has participated in adaptive digital beamforming design studies for numerous the Department of Defense phased-array antenna development programs. He is the author of a number of papers and reports on adaptive digital beamforming and array signal processing. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Clemson University.

George Brown, a Georgia Tech Research Institute senior research engineer, has worked on many aspects of radar signal processing for applications, including synthetic aperture radar, tracking, and pattern synthesis. His current research interest includes multifunction phased array radars, application of adaptive digital beamforming to tracking, and phase only pattern synthesis.

E. Jefferson Holder, principal research scientist with Georgia Tech Research Institute's Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, has directed research in digital beamforming, including the development, fabrication, and testing of a non-cooperative bistatic radar receiver.

Robert Howard, Georgia Tech Research Institute senior research engineer, has more than 20 years of experience with phased-array antennas and radar system development. He has supported a number of U.S. Army and Missile Defense Agency programs.

William 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.

Course Administrator

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

E. Jefferson Holder
404-407-7752
jeff.holder@gtri.gatech.edu

Course Location and Times

  • Atlanta, Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
  • 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday
  • 8 a.m. to noon Friday

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

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