Course Description:
Modern radars have evolved greatly from their origins as providers of blips and blobs to highly trained operators in darkened rooms. Today, all-weather, day and night radars provide clear digital images as detailed and useful as photographs. They also provide digital symbolic representations of multiple types of air, sea, and ground moving targets over wide geographic regions. Today’s state-of-the-art radars can even provide flexible, on-demand sensing services to a large network of users. This tutorial will introduce the student to both the physics and the digital technology underpinning modern radars. The first half of this tutorial will describe how radars detect and image objects in their field of view. The second half of the tutorial will describe how radars estimate and predict the behavior of those objects.
Prerequisites: Students should have a good basic undergraduate-level understanding of advanced algebra and solid geometry. Knowledge of undergraduate electromagnetic field theory, calculus, discrete mathematics, and probability theory will be helpful but are not required.
Instructor Biography:
Dr. David Zasada |
Dr. David Zasada is a Senior Principal Sensors Systems Engineer in MITRE’s Warfighter Integration Directorate (E140). His roles include Technology Director for Intelligence, Reconnaissance, and Surveillance Systems for the Warfighter Integration Directorate, Program Director for MITRE Support to AFRL, and Principal Investigator in MITRE’s Mission-Oriented Investigation and Experimentation program. He also contributes to special study teams for several DoD radar programs. He is a member of the IEEE Aerospace Electronics Systems (AES) Society, Radar Systems Panel, Radar Standards Group, Signal Processing Society, and Phi Beta Kappa. Dave received his PhD in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in radar signal processing from Syracuse University, 1995, an EE, Electrical Engineering, concentrations in communications and signal processing, Syracuse University, 1983. MS, Physics, concentration in astrophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1973, and BS, Physics, concentration in low temperature physics, Georgetown University, 1971.
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