COURSE # ROO-431
RADAR CROSS-SECTION MEASUREMENT, EXPLOITATION AND COHERENT SIGNAL PROCESSING
An in-depth treatment of radar concepts and techniques used for low-observable target detection and classification.
Modern targets effectively reduce their observability features applying new material technologies and employing cover, concealment, and deception to deny acquisition. Consequently, modern radar systems employing sophisticated signal processing must keep up with the new scenarios through exploitation of target features revealed only by precision measurements. This course addresses the interpretation of radar signatures data for extraction of maximum information from radar returns. Actual target and clutter signatures data are used to illustrate how advanced radar processors perform surveillance, detection, discrimination, and non-cooperative target identification functions.
In addition, this course provides a basic understanding of radar and signal processing technologies used for cooperative target RCS measurements and tactical engagements. Practical concepts for interpretation and utilization of Radar Cross Section data are developed based on RCS versus aspect, Doppler signatures, high-resolution imagery, and polarimetric signatures. Target sets examined include fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, missiles, periscopes, ships, and wakes.
Applications and benefits:
You will benefit by enhancing your understanding of the:
- Radar technology and target discrimination principles.
- Interpretation of static and dynamic target radar signatures with emphasis on signal processing.
- Correlation of radar signatures with target features and comparison of data sets processed by different methods.
- Evaluation of radar target engagement scenarios.
- Effects of radar system parameters, signal processing parameters, and of the environment on observed target characteristics.
- Practical techniques to exploit target features for discrimination and identification.
Who should attend:
Weapon system acquisition executives, management, engineers and scientists involved in survivable platform design or radar system development and upgrade; engineers and technicians involved in radar cross section measurements; and data interpretation, and digital signal processing engineers. There is no prerequisite for this course; however, a familiarity with electromagnetic waves and radar principles will be helpful.
Course Outline:
- Introduction
- Review of radar fundamentals
- History and nomenclature
- Radar observables (and their exploitation)
- Radar range equation
- Scattering principles for simple objects
- Signal processing fundamentals: range profiles, Doppler, two-dimensional imagery, interferometry
- Static and Cooperative Dynamic Measurements
- Radar facilities and instrumentation
- Irradiance requirements
- Sampling requirements
- Calibration techniques including polarimetric and remote field sites
- Error Sources and control including stationary and moving background subtraction
- RCS measurement validation
- RCS Interpretation and RCS Statistics
- Coherence and phase smoothing
- Data smoothing in time, image, and spectral domains
- Statistical functions and their significance
- Multipath
- Scaling
- Radar Systems and Signal Processing
- Operational radars
- Pulse Doppler, moving target indicator (MTI), monopulse, Over-the-Horizon, SAR
- Engagement decision theory:
- Surveillance, Detection, Tracking, Homing, Fuzing
- False alarm regulation and detection probability in multi-stage processors
- Detection, Discrimination, and Identification
- Pulse-Doppler radar exploitation of observables
- Multi-stage, multi-mode signal processing
- Noncooperative target identification (NCTI)
- Analysis examples using measured helicopter spectral data and maritime targets in clutter
- NCTI of ground vehicles in SAR imagery
- Advanced Topics
- Three-dimensional imagery (IFSAR)
- Foliage penetration
- Ultra-wideband and impulse radar
- Polarimetric observables and discrimination principles
- Helicopter rotor-body interference
- Radar signature quality control principles and measurement techniques
- Near-field measurements and near-field / far-field transformation
- Dynamic target imagery and motion compensation techniques
About the Instructor
Alan D. Siegel is Principal Scientist for measurement sciences at System Planning Corporation. He specializes in radar signatures measurement of dynamic targets and in the interpretation and utilization of radar observables for analysis of radar processor performance and platform survivability. Mr. Siegel has 16 years of radar cross section measurement experience including scale-model targets, natural clutter phenomena and full-scale aircraft, helicopters, missiles, periscopes and surface ships and their wakes. He received his B.S. and B.E. degrees from the SUNY Stony Brooke and his M.S. from the University of Illinois.
Mr. Siegel has authored 11 papers, and he received System Planning Corporation's Researcher of the Year Award in 1988.
Details:
Course: ROO-431 Duration: 3 Days FEE: $1,499 CEUs: 2.16
Please direct any additional inquiries regarding our courses to Zygmond Turski, Program Director, by e-mail, FAX: (636) 273-4942 or TELEPHONE: (636) 273-9608.
Call toll free 1-800-683-7267 from anywhere in the Continental U.S. or CANADA.
Last modified April 6, 2008.
