Advanced Radar

Course structure

What you will learn

On successful completion of the course you will be able to:

• Describe and distinguish between and assess the operation of various advanced defence radar systems operating in air, water and the ground environments,
• Compare and contrast the advantages and limitations of such systems as related to defence radar design, environmental and target-based parameters,
• Relate the performance of the various advanced defence radar to their system design and operational environment,
• Analyse the performance of advanced radar systems using appropriate system models and knowledge of the environmental and target parameters,
• Be familiar with and implement a number of RF signal processing and SAR imaging techniques.

Core content

The course covers a broad range of advanced radar techniques and specialist applications, associated theory and design, and practical application. Topics cover:

• Millimetre Wave Radar: The mmW band, atmospheric windows, advantages and limitations, resolution, range limitations. Air launched anti-armour missile seekers, anti-aircraft missile seekers, applications to active seekers,
• Bistatic SAR: Review and current usage, properties and techniques,
• Waveform design: Correlation, autocorrelation, matched reception, ambiguity function, ambiguity function for example waveforms, integrated and peak side lobe level,
• Non Cooperative Target Recognition: Resolution requirements, SAR template matching, range profiling, dependence of range profile on aspect, Doppler  signature analysis,
• Advanced SAR: two and three dimensional SAR image formation, Doppler Beam-Sharpening, Polar format and Backprojection techniques. Monostatic and Bistatic radar geometries,
• SAR techniques: image exploitation including Coherent Change Detection,Interferometry and polarimetry,
• Laboratory SAR: Ground-based SAR measurements for target signature measurement with demonstration,
• Ultra-wide band (UWB) radar: systems definition and waveform design, application to surface penetrating radar,
• Introduction to Tracking: Basic concepts, generic algorithms and introduction to estimators. Idealised Bayes estimator, Particle Filters, Kalman Filter, and Extended Kalman Filter,
• FMCW radar module demonstration.

Upgrade to a professional qualification

When taken as a Short Course for Credit, 10 credit points can be put towards the Military Electronic Systems Engineering MSc.

Find out more about short course credit points.

Who should attend

You must have completed Electromagnetic Propagation and Devices, Radar Principles and Signal Processing, Statistics and Analysis courses to take this as a Short Course for Credit. There are no prerequisites if taken as a Standalone Short Course.

Speakers

Dr Daniel Andre

Concessions

A limited number of sponsored MOD places are available for this course.

Location and travel

Cranfield Defence and Security (CDS) is a Cranfield School based at the Ministry of Defence establishment on the Oxfordshire/Wiltshire borders.

Shrivenham itself lies in the picturesque Vale of the White Horse, close to the M4 motorway which links London and South Wales. It is 7 miles from Swindon, the nearest town, which lies off the M4 at the hub of Britain’s motorway network.

Bath, Cheltenham, Bristol and Oxford are all within an hour’s drive and London less than two hours away by car.

All visitors must be pre-booked in at reception by the person they are visiting on the campus.

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