Radar Signal Processing Training Essentials

WHAT’S INCLUDED?

• 3 days of Radar Signal Processing Training Essentials with an expert instructor
• Radar Signal Processing Essentials Electronic Course Guide
• Certificate of Completion
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AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP:

The target audience for this Radar Signal Processing Training Essentials course:

Objectives:

Upon completing this Radar Signal Processing Training Essentials course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:

• Learn the principles and objectives of basic signal processing methods fundamental to all radars.
• Understand interference suppression methods for noise, clutter, and jamming.
• Evaluate radar signal processing algorithm performance and limitations.
• Develop a strong foundation for study of advanced radar techniques.
• Sampling rates and resolution in spatial, Doppler, and angle dimensions
• Models of the deterministic and statistical behavior of radar signals
• Moving target indication (MTI) and pulse Doppler processors for detecting targets in clutter
• Simple and pulse compression waveforms to achieve resolution, sidelobe, and SNR requirements
• Coherent and noncoherent integration and constant false alarm rate (CFAR) to meet detection goals
• Single- and multi-target tracking algorithms and limitations on their accuracy
• Basic concepts and design drivers for advanced adaptive processing algorithms for clutter and jamming suppression
• 2D imaging radar (SAR) concepts and basic design parameters

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Course Syllabus:

SIGNAL MODELING

• Radar signal processing goals: signal-to-interference and resolution
• Signal acquisition and organization: fast- and slow-time sampling, the data cube
• Deterministic and Statistical models for targets, clutter, and noise signals
• Doppler shift and Doppler bandwidth

THRESHOLD DETECTION

• Fixed and adaptive (CFAR) threshold detection theory
• Simple tools for detection performance estimation: Albersheim’s and Shnidman’s equations
• The effect of target fluctuations and integration

MEASUREMENT ACCURACY AND TRACKING

• Limiting factors in measuring range, Doppler, and angle
• Single- and Multiple-Target Tracking: data association and track filtering

WAVEFORMS

• Effect of radar waveforms on range and Doppler resolution, ambiguities, and signal-to-noise ratio
• Matched filtering and pulse compression
• Simple pulses, linear frequency modulation, phase coded, and pulse burst waveforms

MTI AND PULSE DOPPLER

• Moving target indication and the vector matched filter
• Pulse Doppler processing

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR

• Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) concepts and modes
• Resolution versus area coverage
• Basic stripmap and spotlight SAR imaging algorithms

ADAPTIVE INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION

• Digital beamforming
• Ground MTI and space-time adaptive processing (STAP)
• STAP extensions and applications

SPECIAL TOPICS AND APPLICATIONS (A selected subset of these is included)

• Continuous-wave and Frequency-modulated continuous wave radar
• Electronic protection
• Weather radar
• Airport surveillance radar
• Space-based radar
• Millimeter-wave radar

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