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About Breakthroughs and New Concepts in Radar : from bistatic to MIMO configurations

For the last ten years the radar community is facing new requirements in civilian and military radar surveillance and is actively studying new radar techniques and architectures to improve the quality of detection, terrain imaging, target tracking, as well as the classification and identification of non cooperative targets.

This two-day course provides an introduction to advanced and new concepts of radar, with emphasis on low frequency radar, bistatic/multistatic configurations, new waveform design and MIMO. For each module, a basic introduction will be given before moving on to more advanced topics.

Who should attend / Target audience

The course is suitable for engineers, scientists and researchers involved in the design and study of new configurations. It is also suitable for engineers who are interested in getting a prospective vision of the new generation of radar sensors and architectures. A basic knowledge of radar systems will be helpful.

Brief Course Outline

Radar fundamentals: short introduction to conventional radar systems, including the coverage and resolution aspects; limitations at low altitude; introduction to new configurations.

Low frequency radar: interest for low frequency radar; radar cross section and propagation effects; counter stealth and low altitude / over the horizon capabilities; phased-array antenna and digital beam-forming; digital radar and related architectures.

Airborne low frequency detection and imaging: foliage penetration capabilities for SAR and GMTI; military and civilian applications; design, signal processing and RFI issues; STAP/GMTI performance at low frequency; performance modelling.

Bistatic radar fundamentals: definition and interest of bistatic vs. monostatic; power budget and detection performance; deployment concept; processing and synchronization issues; examples of bistatic radar: bistatic barrier, forwarding scattering radar (FSR), shadow detection.

Passive radar: overview of the passive coherent location (PCL) concept; review of the opportunistic emitters useful for radar detection; ground-based and airborne applications; introduction to performance modelling of passive radar.

Bistatic SAR and GMTI: technical and operational benefits of bistatic vs monostatic; signal processing issues in image formation and STAP (space time adaptive processing); example of experimental results.

MIMO radar: introduction to space coding; synthetic impulse and aperture radar (SIAR); digital beam-forming of emitted signals; presentation and discussion on the different MIMO configurations; high resolution techniques; applications to air and maritime surveillance; application to air to ground detection; interferometric and SAR applications.

About the Presenter

Marc Lesturgie graduated from ENSAE (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, Toulouse, 1985), and obtained a Master’s degree in Electronics & Microwaves from University of Toulouse in 1986. In 2005 he obtained a Research Directorship Habilitation from University of Paris VI.

He joined the French Aerospace Lab (ONERA) in 1985 and worked in a wide range of low frequency and new radar concepts, covering bistatic and multistatic configurations. From 1996 to 2000, he is the head of "New radar concepts" team in ONERA.

In 2008 Marc Lesturgie is Deputy Director at the Electromagnetics and Radar Department of ONERA. Since 2006, he is also the Director of SONDRA, a joint laboratory established between Supelec, ONERA, National University of Singapore and Defence Science and Technology Agency of  Singapore. Today his research interests cover the applications of new radar configurations (multistatic, MIMO,...) to air, ground and maritime surveillance radar.

As the Chairman of the SEE/Committee 23 (radio-location and navigation) from 2000 to 2006, he organised several international conferences and was the Technical Chairman of International Conference on Radar Systems in 2004. He is author and co-author of over 40 journal and conference papers, several patents and over 40 technical reports. He also gives lectures regularly on radar topics in overseas universities.

How to Register

To register for this course, please fill out the registration form and return it to NICTA Industry Education Manager (fax it to +61-8-8343-8711or scan and email it industryeducation@nicta.com.au).

Cancellation Policy

At least four weeks notice is required for cancellation of a place in a short course for full reimbursement. If cancellation is later than 4 weeks then the place can either be given to another person or the registrant can be provided with a credit towards other NICTA training.