The course is aimed at graduate-level engineers with a background in electronic engineering or physics.

Course content

• You'll cover the following areas during the course:
• Introduction: historical background, radar terminology, radar band designations
• The radar equation: point targets, radar cross section, distributed targets, propagation, coverage diagrams
• Noise, clutter and detection: theory of detection, sea and land clutter models, Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) processing
• Displays: A-scope, B-scope, PPI, modern displays
• Doppler radar and MTI: Doppler effect, delay-line cancellers, blind speeds, staggered PRFs, adaptive Doppler filtering, micro-Doppler signatures
• Pulse Doppler processing and STAP: airborne radar, high, low and medium PRF operation, space-time adaptive processing
• Pulse compression: principles, the ambiguity function, the matched filter, chirp waveforms, SAW technology
• Waveform design: nonlinear FM, phase codes, waveform generation and compression
• Continuous wave radar: principles, radar equation, effect of phase and amplitude errors
• Synthetic aperture radar (SAR): principles, SAR processing, autofocus, spotlight mode, airborne and spaceborne systems and applications, interferometry, ISAR
• Tracking radar: conical scan, monopulse, tracker, track-while-scan, Kalman filters
• Phased array radar: phased array principles, array signal processing, multifunction radar, scheduling
• Electronic Warfare: ESM, ECM, ECCM; super-resolution, IFM, types of jammers, calculation of performance, adaptive arrays, LPI radar
• Stealth and counter-stealth: stealth techniques for aircraft and other target types, low frequency and UWB radar
• Bistatic radar: bistatic geometry, bistatic radar equation, synchronisation, illuminators of opportunity
• System design examples

Dates, assessment and certificates

The course runs over four days, with 6 to 8 teaching hours per day. This is followed by a three-hour tutorial.

Teaching will take place in person with some materials available online.

The course is assessed through an exam.

If you complete the course but not the exam, you'll receive a certificate of attendance.

If you take and pass the exam you'll get a certificate stating this, which includes your pass level.

The course is in person and will be held at: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Roberts Building, Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom

Cost: £1,500