Radar Signal Processing
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The official GTU curriculum for Radar Signal Processing (subject code 2742602) as prescribed for EAC( · Semester 4 divides the course into 9 units, covering 72 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 (2742602)Unit 1 Introduction to RADAR Systems
- -History and Application of RADAR
- Basic RADAR Functions
- Elements of pulsed RADAR
- Review of Signal processing Concepts and operations
- A preview of Basic Radar signal processing
- radar system components
- Advance RADAR Signal processing
Unit 2 Signal Models
- -Components of a RADAR signal
- amplitude models
- types of clutters
- noise model and signal to noise ratio
- jamming, and frequency models: the Doppler shift
- spatial models
- spectral model
Unit 3 Sampling and quantization of pulsed RADAR Signals
- -Domain and criteria for sampling radar signals
- Sampling in the fast time dimension
- Sampling in slow time: selecting a pulse repetition interval
- sampling the Doppler spectrum
- Sampling in the spatial and angle dimension
- I/Q imbalance and Digital I/Q
Unit 4 RADAR Waveforms
- The waveform matched Filter
- Matched filtering of moving targets
- The ambiguity function
- The pulse burst waveforms
- frequency modulated pulse compression waveforms
- Range side lobe control for FM Waveforms
- the stepped frequency waveform
- Phase modulated pulse compression waveforms
- COSTAS Frequency Codes
Unit 5 Doppler Processing
- -Alternate form of Doppler spectrum
- Moving Target indication(MTI)
- Pulse Doppler processing
- dwell-to-dwell stagger
- Pulse pair Processing
- additional Doppler processing issues
- clutter mapping and moving target detector
- MTI for moving platforms: adaptive displaced phase centre antenna processing
Unit 6 Detection Fundamentals
- -Radar Detection as hypothesis testing
- threshold detection in coherent systems
- threshold detection of RADAR signals
Unit 7 Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) Detection
- The effect of unknown interference power on false alarm probability
- Cell Averaging (CFAR)
- Order static CFAR
- Additional CFAR Topics
Unit 8 Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Imaging
- - Introduction to SAR Fundamentals
- Stripmap SAR Data characteristics
- Stripmap SAR Image formation algorithms
- spotlight SAR Data characteristics
- The polar format image formation algorithm for spotlight SAR, Interferometric SAR
Unit 9 Introduction to beam forming and space-Time adaptive Processing
- - Spatial Filtering
- Space- time signal environment
- space-time signal Modelling
- processing the space-time signal
- Computational issues in STAP
- Reduced -dimension STAP
- Advanced STAP Algorithms and Analysis
- limitations to STAP
- References Books: 1
- Fundamental of Radar signal Processing
- New York 2005 2
- Principles of RADAR and Sonar Signal Processing
- Francois Le Chevalier
- Artech House 3
- Radar Systems
- Peak Detection and Tracking
- Michael O kolawole
- Introduction to RADAR Systems 3/E
- Mc-Graw Hill 5
- Radar Principles
- Peyton Z. peebles
- 2009 Wiley India 6. 6.Radar Design Principles-Signal Processing and Environment
- Nathason, PHI