Radar Systems

Overview
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This Lecture

Introduction The radar concept

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Introduction

Why Radar Systems?

Whats different about this course ?

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Introduction What will you learn ?

The basic concepts of radar The technology Radar vocabulary ...

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What will you learn ?

The basic concepts of radar The technology
Why one technique is better than the other. Example: For rejecting clutter or For seeing the same target

The vocabulary
To understand various terminologies. Example: difference between beamwidth and bandwidth duty cycle, PRF, radar cross-section, clutter, dwell time

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What we are going to accomplish?

To give you a start A broad understanding of radar systems issues and a radars subsystems To address radar design issues

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The Radar Concept

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The Radar Concept

Target detection and range RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) Modern Radars: sophisticated transducer/computer systems
besides detection and ranging; track, identify, image and classify targets while suppressing strong unwanted interference

Applications:
Military and civilian tracking of aircraft 2-D and 3-D mapping Collision avoidance Earth resource monitoring Weather forecasting
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The Radar Concept

An electromagnetic system for detection and location of reflecting objects such as aircraft, ships, spacecraft, vehicle, people and natural environment A radar is an electrical system that transmits radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic (EM) waves towards a region of interest and receives and detects these EM waves when reflected from objects in that region.

Transmit-Propagate-Reflection-Receive
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