EE40136: Radar systems and remote sensing
[Page last updated: 15 October 2020]
Academic Year: | 2020/1 |
Owning Department/School: | Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering |
Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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Assessment Summary: | EX 100% |
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Description: | Aims: To provide an overview of the evolution, current status and possible future development of active and passive remote sensing systems. Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit students will be able to (i) describe the main features of active and passive remote sensing systems, (ii) make detailed calculations for radar and radiometer systems, (iii) to be able to detail key design considerations for radar systems and remote sensing. Skills: Elementary system design and data analysis, taught, facilitated and assessed. Content: * Review of active and passive remote-sensing applied to land, atmosphere and oceans for Earth Observation. * Fundamental concepts of microwave radiometry; brightness temperature, extinction and emission. Microwave interaction with land, atmosphere and oceans. * Design and analysis of radiometer systems: total power, unbalanced and balanced (noise injection) Dicke switched systems. * Array antenna systems including active and passive phased array, digital beam-forming techniques, super-resolution and MIMO arrays. * Fundamentals of radar system design. Noise, clutter and detection. Radar waveform design; ambiguity functions, pulse compression. * Radar systems and applications; tracking, stealth, air traffic control, weather. * Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) concepts and imaging algorithms. Advanced techniques; interferometric SAR, MIMO SAR, SAR tomography. * SAR imaging considerations; layover, foreshortening, speckle, motion compensation and autofocus. Atmospheric effects on SAR. * Case studies of current and proposed systems for ground, airborne and satellite remote sensing (e.g., GPM, TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-L satellite missions). |
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EE40136 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
EE40136 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
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