JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives:

• 1. To introduce different types of radar systems for military and civilian applications.
• 2. To understand the principle of operation of different types of Radar
• 3. To know the working of Phased array Radar and SAR and its applications

Course Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• 1. Analyze the parameters of Radar
• 2. Distinguish different types of Radar
• 3. Configure the Radar receiver
• 4. Characterize the signals for Synthetic Aperture Radar.

UNIT - I

Radar Basics: Block diagram, Range equation, Ambiguous range, Usable range, Instrumented Range, A power approach to SNR, Radar cross section of simple shapes, Radar Loss

UNIT - II

Radar types: Block diagram and working principle of CW radar, FM-CW radar, MTI radar and Phased array radar.

UNIT - III

Radar Receiver: Single and Dual Conversion Super Heterodyne Receiver, Noise, 1-dB gain compression point, Dynamic Range, Cascade Analysis, Digital Receiver, Receiver Configurations

UNIT - IV

Synthetic Aperture Radar: Liner Array theory, Transition to SAR theory, Development of SAR specific Equations, Types of SAR, SAR signal Characterization, Practical Implementation, Down range and Cross Range imaging.

UNIT - V

Advances in Radar: MIMO Radar, Cognitive Radar, Surveillance radars, Fire control radars, Bistatic Radar, Other Advancements in Radar Theory, Hardware Advancements

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Mervin C. Budge, Jr., Shawn R. German -Basic Radar Analysis, Artech House, London, 2015
• 2. Merrill I. Skolnik-Introduction to Radar Systems- 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Hamish Meikle- Modern Radar Systems, Second Edition, Artech House, London, 2008.
• 2. Levanon, N- Radar principles, John Wiley & Sons 1988.
• 3. Nathanson F E- Radar Design Principle, Scitech Publishing M.TECH.- I YEAR- I SEMESTER MICROWAVE AND RADAR ENGINEERING