EC En 564 Radar and Communication Systems
Fall Semester 2007
Reading and Lecture Schedule (subject to change -- last revised 9/1/2007)
| Day | Date | Topic | Chapter Reading |
| WF | 5-7 Sept | Class policies, Course preview, Intro. to Radar Systems (notes) | FR 1; SC 1 |
| MWF | 10-14 Sept | Radar and communications systems: design and analysis | FR 1; SC 3 |
| MWF | 17-21 Sept | Signal modeling, radar equation & link budget | FR 2; SC 3, 4, 5 |
| MWF | 24-28 Sept | Radar cross section & clutter | FR 2 |
| MWF | 1-5 Oct | Platform considerations and antennas | SC 2 |
| MWF | 8-12 Oct | Modulation, matched filtering | FR 3, 4; SC 6 |
| MWF | 15-19 Oct | Radar resolution and demodulation | FR 4; SC 7 |
| MWF | 22-26 Oct | Radar resolution & Doppler processing | FR 5; SC 8 |
| MW | 19-31 Oct | Detection | RS 6; SC 8 |
| F | 2 Nov | Mid-term Exam (in class) | |
| MWF | 5-9 Nov | CFAR | FR 7 |
| MWF | 12-16 Nov | Doppler and MTI | FR 5 |
| MF | 19&20 Nov | Introduction to SAR (Friday instruction on Tues, 20 Nov) | FR 8 |
| W | 21 Nov | No class | |
| Th-F | 22-23 Nov | Holiday | |
| MWF | 26-30 Nov | Monopulse radar and tracking systems | |
| MWF | 3-7 Dec | Beam-Forming and Space-Time Adaptive Processing | FR 9 |
| MW | 10-12 Dec | Class presentations | |
| M | 17 Dec. | FINAL EXAM (2-5 p.m.) |
FR: Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing (Richards)
SC: Satellite Communications (Roddy)
Selected problem solutions for Satellite Communications are in the back of the book. Problems and solutions for FR will be provided