Tutorial: Waveforms Analysis and Design

Presented by:
Dr. Nadav Levanon
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Course Description:

Fundamental tools for radar signal analysis - the matched filter response and the ambiguity function - are briefly discussed and demonstrated on basic signals: LFM pulse, coherent pulse train and a coherent train of LFM pulses. Advanced pulse compression signals and range sidelobe reduction techniques are then studied, including: frequency modulation (Costas, NLFM, multi-carrier), phase coding (Barker, Frank, P3, P4, P(n,k), Polyphase Barker, MPSL), inter-pulse diversity (complementary, step-frequency, orthogonal overlay), weighting, mismatch filters and sidelobe-blanking. Also discussed are spectrum sidelobe reduction techniques (derivative phase, Quadriphase transformation, Gaussian windowed sinc), and periodic CW waveforms. MATLAB software tools for radar signal analysis will be demonstrated.

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Instructor Biography:

Nadav Levanon received a B.Sc and M.Sc. in EE from the Technion – Israel Inst. of Technology, in 1961 and 1965, and a Ph.D. in EE from The University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1969. He is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering – Systems, Tel Aviv University, Israel, where he has been a faculty member since 1970. He chaired the EE Department during 1983-1985. Presently he heads its Weinstein Research Inst. for Signal Processing, and is the incumbent of the chair on Radar, Navigation and Electronics Systems. He spent sabbatical years at the University of Wisconsin, The Johns Hopkins University – Applied Physics Laboratory, and Qualcomm Inc., San Diego.  Dr. Levanon is a Life Fellow of the IEEE. His 1998 fellow citation is for "Contributions to radar signal analysis and detection". He is also a Fellow of the IET.  He is the author of the book Radar Principles (Wiley, 1988) and co-author of Radar Signals (Wiley, 2004). He has published more than 60 journal papers and he holds 11 US patents.