Courses in 2016
Introduction to Radar
Course Information
Dates: 15-19 February 2016
Course code: EEE5119Z
Venue: Menzies Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Menzies Building (Upper Campus), University of Cape Town
Course Description
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The principal aim of this course is to introduce students to the fundamental principles underlying radar systems and to enable them to understand and apply these principles to generic radar systems. The subject is specifically structured around these aims. On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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Course Overview
The course covers the areas listed below:
- Overview of key principles: Radar components and processing, radar system functions, radar types, radar applications
- Radar range equation: Point target derivation, system noise, SNR, system losses
- Radar waveforms and ambiguity function: CW, single pulse, pulse soppler, coherent vs incoherent, range estimation and range ambiguities, ghosts, sensing Doppler frequencies – Doppler ambiguities, pulse compression, FMCW, phase coding, other waveforms, eg. passive radar, noise radar, ambiguity function definition and properties
- Transmitters: Waveform generation, power conversion, mixers, duplexors, RF devices – magnetrons, and travelling wavetubes, synchronisation and timing issues
- Antennas and phased arrays: Radiation patterns, beamwidth, sidelobes and gain, antennas, phased arrays
- Propagation, scattering and clutter: Propagation, attenuation, refraction, diffraction, etc., scattering, radar cross-section, target fluctuation, clutter, surface and volume clutter, ground clutter for airborne radar
- Radar receivers RF aspects: Preamplifiers, down-conversion, limiters, noise figures
- Radar signal processing: Matched filters, range processing, Doppler processing, Fourier transforms, conventional phase shift beamforming, STAP
- Detection and the radar equation: Detection principles, statistical detection theory, pulse envelope detector, radar equation, integration, CFAR
- FMCW radars: Doppler effect, FMCW/Pulse compression, FMCW, Ambiguities
- Parameter estimation and tracking radars: Key basics of estimation theory, range accuracy, frequency estimation, direction of arrival, tracking radars – lobing and monopulse
- Synthetic aperture radar: Cross-range resolution, synthetic aperture and resolution, azimuthal chirps, SAR image formation, MoComp.
Presenter
Prof Piet van Genderen received his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands, in 1971. After graduation, he joined the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he worked on radar and radar signal processing for air traffic control.
In 1979, he moved to the R&D department of Hollandse Signaalapparaten BV in Hengelo, The Netherlands, now Thales Nederland, where he held several positions as Group Expert Radar Systems.
In 1994, he was appointed full professor at the International Research Centre for Telecommunications and Radar of the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. He has (co-)authored over 200 publications, seven patents and a few books. He now is an emeritus professor.
Prof van Genderen received the Radar Prize of the European Microwave Week three times as author/co-author. He has received the prize for the most innovative and effective patent of the Thales group in 2000, and received an honorary doctorate at the Military Technical Academy of Romania.
He has been the general chairman of the European Microwave Week in 2004, and the chairman of the European Microwave Conference during this event. He has been chair or member of the technical program committees of many international conferences dedicated to radar.