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