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Surveillance Radar Systems
| Presenter: | Prof. Simon Watts, Thales UK |
| Dates: | 8–9 September 2008 |
| Venue: | Conference Centre, Technology Park Adelaide, Mawson Lakes SA |
About Surveillance Radar Systems
This two-day course provides an introduction to the radar system concepts encountered in the design and development of surveillance radar systems, with particular emphasis on airborne radars. Each module will provide a basic introduction to the subject area and then cover various topics at a more advanced level.
The course will be suitable for engineers and scientists involved in the design, modelling and assessment of surveillance radar systems, including engineers involved in the procurement of radar systems. A basic knowledge of radar system theory will be helpful.
The course is suitable for engineers and scientists involved in the design, modelling and assessment of surveillance radar systems, including engineers involved in the procurement of radar systems. A basic knowledge of radar system theory will be helpful
Brief Course Outline
- Radar fundamentals: a brief introduction to radar system basics, including the radar equation; targets and clutter; thermal noise; propagation; pulse compression; detection processing and track-while-scan systems.
- Radar clutter: basic clutter characteristics (reflectivity, polarimetry, amplitude statistics, Doppler spectrum, spatial correlation); clutter models (land, sea and rain clutter); sea clutter and the compound K distribution.
- Constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection systems: cell-averaging CFAR systems and variants; analysis of CFAR detection in noise and clutter; distribution free and adaptive CFAR systems.
- Moving target indication (MTI) and moving target detection (MTD): Doppler spectrum of pulsed radar returns; MTI cancellers; pulse Doppler processing; airborne pulse Doppler; waveform design (low, medium and high pulse repetition frequency waveforms); displaced phase centre antennas (DPCA) and space-time adaptive processing (STAP).
- Electronic countermeasures (ECM) and electronic protection measures (EPM): jammer strategies; passive ECM techniques; active ECM techniques; EPM techniques (parameter agility, sidelobe blankers and cancellers etc.).
- Synthetic aperture radar (SAR): imaging with radar; SAR fundamentals (swath SAR, spot SAR and Inverse SAR); platform motion compensation and autofocus; SAR signal processing; interferometric SAR.
- Specification and measurement of radar performance: performance specification issues (procurement of adaptive radars etc.); performance prediction; measuring performance; measurement methods and accuracies.
- Overview of in-service surveillance radar systems: illustrations of radar systems employing the topics covered in the lectures; maritime surveillance; airborne early warning; battlefield surveillance (land-based and airborne radar); weapon location; UAV radars.
About the Presenter: Prof. Simon Watts, MBE, MA, MSc, PhD, CEng, FREng, FIEE, FIEEE
Simon Watts graduated from the University of Oxford in 1971 and obtained an MSc from the University of Birmingham in 1972. He is currently Deputy Scientific Director of Thales UK, Aerospace Division, and is also a Visiting Professor in the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. He joined Thales (then EMI Electronics) in 1967 and since then has worked on a wide range of radar and EW projects, particularly airborne maritime surveillance radars and synthetic aperture radar. His research interests include the modelling of radar sea clutter and the development of signal processing techniques for radar target detection. He has co-authored a book (K.D.Ward, R.J.A.Tough and S.Watts, “Sea clutter: Scattering, the K Distribution and Radar Performance”, IET, 2006) and is author and co-author of over 35 journal and conference papers, and several patents. He also lectures regularly on radar topics and was chairman of the international radar conference RADAR-97. He was appointed MBE in 1996 for services to the UK defence industry and is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEE and Fellow of the IEEE.
For further information please contact:
Anne-Marie Eliseo
Industry Education Manager
phone: +61-8-8302-3928
email: industryeducation@nicta.com.au
