Radar & Navigational Aids
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Radar & Navigational Aids Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Radar & Navigational Aids (subject code 2181103) as prescribed for ECE · Semester 8 divides the course into 9 units, covering 55 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2181103)Unit 1 Introduction
- The simple form of Radar Equation
- Radar Block diagram and Operation
- Radar Frequencies
- millimeter and submilimeter waves
- Applications of Radar
Unit 2 Radar Equation
- Prediction of Range Performance
- Minimum Detectable Signal
- Receiver Noise
- Signal to Noise Ratio
- Matched filter impulse response
- Integration of radar Pulses
- Radar Cross Section of Targets
- Cross section Fluctuations
- Radar Clutter- surface clutter
- sea clutter and Land clutter
- weather clutter
- Transmitter Power
- Pulse Repetition Frequency and Range ambiguities
- Antenna Parameters
- system losses
- propagation effects
- other considerations
Unit 3 CW and FM CW Radar
- Doppler effect
- CW radar
- FM CW radar
- Multiple frequency CW Radar
Unit 4 MTI And Pulse Doppler Radar
- Delay line Cancellers
- Multiple or staggered Pulse Repetition Frequencies
- Range gated Doppler Filters
- Block Diagram of Digital Signal Processor
- Example of MTI radar Processor
- Pulse Doppler Radar
- Non coherent MTI, MTI from moving platform
- Other types of MTI, Airborne radar
Unit 5 Tracking Radar
- Sequential loping
- conical scan
- Tracking in range and Doppler
Unit 6 Radar Transmitters, Antennas and Receivers
- Hard tube and pulse modulators
- Types of Radar antennas
Unit 7 Electronic Scanning Radar
- Principle of phased array for electronic scanning
- Advantages and capabilities of electronic scanning
- block diagram of an electronic scanning system and its operation
Unit 8 Navigational Aids
- Four Methods of Navigation
- Radio Direction Findings
- Radio Ranges
- Hyperbolic Systems of Navigation
- Aids to approach and Landing
Unit 9 Modern Navigation
- Doppler navigation-Doppler Effect
- New configuration
- Doppler frequency equations
- Track stabilization
- Doppler navigation system
- GPS principle of operation
- Position location determination
- principle of GPS receiver
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