Föreläsningar
The lectures are planned as follows. Lecture notes and other material for the course will be published here as the course progresses.
Date | Topic | Material | |
Lec1 | 16/1 | Introduction, course overview |
Ch 1 Introduction and Radar Overview |
Lec2 | 17/1 | Radar range equation, signal to noise ratio, basic search and detection |
Ch 2 The Radar Range Equation |
W1 | 19/1 | Problem solving workshop | Problems from the chapters |
Lec3 | 23/1 | Propagation effects, atmosphere model, attenuation, absorption, refraction, ducting, turbulence, ionospheric effects, diffraction, multipath, roughness |
Ch 4 Propagation Effects and Mechanisms |
Lec4 | 24/1 | Phenomenology of clutter, land and sea clutter, precipitation, clutter modeling |
Ch 5 Characteristics of Clutter |
Lab1 | 26/1 | Time-of-flight radar/sonar |
Arduino board, ultrasound sensor, stepper motor Lab instructions Supplementary material, only if you want to build the equipment your self: |
Lec5 | 30/1 |
Reflection physics, reflection coefficient, polarization, RCS definition, scattering matrix, scattering regimes, scattering phenomenology |
Ch 6 Target Reflectivity |
Lec6 | 31/1 | RCS of simple targets, RCS of complex targets, statistical models |
Ch 7 Target Fluctuation Models |
W2 | 2/2 | Problem solving workshop | Problems from the chapters |
Lec7 | 6/2 | Doppler shift, Fourier analysis, spectrum of pulsed signals, I/Q channels, ambiguity |
Ch 8 Doppler Phenomenology and Data Acquisition |
Lec8 | 7/2 | Antenna concepts: beamwidth, directivity, gain, return loss, arrays |
Ch 9 Radar Antennas |
Lab2 | 9/2 | Frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar |
Raspberry Pi board, AD/DA extension card, Innosent radar module Lab instructions, doppler.py, fmcw.py, fmcw.c Datasheets: IVS-162, Application Note II, LM358 Supplementary material, if you want to build the equipment your self: assembly instructions |
Lec9 | 13/2 |
Transmitter configurations, power sources and amplifiers, modulators |
Ch 10 Radar Transmitters |
Lec10 | 14/2 | Matched filter, pulse compression, matched filter implementation, ambiguity function |
Ch 20 Fundamentals of Pulse Compression Waveforms |
W3 | 16/2 | Problem solving workshop | Problems from the chapters |
Lec11 | 20/2 | Resolution and sampling requirements, coordinate systems, data collection, image formation |
Ch 21 An Overview of Radar Imaging |
Lec12 | 21/2 | Overview of remote sensing systems |
Vol III, Ch 10 Space-Based SAR for Remote Sensing (photocopies will be distributed) |
Lab3 | 23/2 | Principles of SAR |
Synthesizing images from radar measurements in matlab |
Lec13 | 27/2 | Physics of remote sensing, typical scattering features, rough surfaces |
J. A. Richards (2009), Remote Sensing with Imaging Radar |
Lec14 | 28/2 | Guest lectures from industry, Axis and Acconeer. On Axis site, starting with lunch at 12. | |
W4 | 2/3 | Work with the project | |
Pres. | 7/3 |
Presentation of projects. E:2517 at 13-15 |