BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, RANCHI, INDIA DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMM ENGINEERING

EC8107 RADAR ENGINEERING

Module 1: Introduction to Radar: Basic Radar, Simple form of Radar equation, Radar Block diagram, Radar frequencies, Applications of Radar, Origin of Radar. (6) Text Book: 1. Introduction to Radar Systems, M I Skolnik, 3/e, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2001 Module 2: The Radar Equation: Introduction, Detection of signals in noise, Receiver noise and signal to noise ratio, Integration of Radar pulses, Radar Cross Section of Targets, Pulse repetition frequency. (6) Text Book: 1. Introduction to Radar Systems, M I Skolnik, 3/e, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2001 Module 3: MTI and Pulse Doppler Radar: Introduction to Doppler and MTI Radar, Delay line Cancellers, Digital MTI processing, Moving target Detector, Pulse Doppler Radar, Non Coherent MTI. (7) Text Book: 1. Introduction to Radar Systems, M I Skolnik, 3/e, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2001 Module 4: Tracking Radar: Tracking with Radar, Monopulse tracking, Conical Scan and sequential lobbing, tracking in Range. (6) Text Book: 1. Introduction to Radar Systems, M I Skolnik, 3/e, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2001 Module 5: Radar Clutter: Introduction to Radar Clutter, Surface Clutter radar equation, Land Clutter, Sea Clutter. (5) Text Book: 1. Introduction to Radar Systems, M I Skolnik, 3/e, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2001 Module 6: Radar Antennas: Functions of Radar Antennas, Antenna parameters, Antenna radiation pattern and Aperture illumination, Reflector antennas, Electronically steered phase array Antennas. (5) Text Book: 1. Introduction to Radar Systems, M I Skolnik, 3/e, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2001 Module 7: Radar Receivers: The Radar receiver, Receiver Noise Figure, Superheterodyne receiver, Duplexers and Receiver protectors, Radar Displays. (6) Text Book: 1. Introduction to Radar Systems, M I Skolnik, 3/e, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2001