Chapter 11: Radar Systems Fundamentals

The following sections are included:

• Chapter’s Learning Outcomes

• Introduction

  • Radar Types and Their Applications

  • Check Your Understanding

• Pulsed Radar System and Range Limits

  • Radar Range and Angular Resolution

  • Maximum Unambiguous Range

  • Minimum Unambiguous Range

  • Pulse Integration

  • Check Your Understanding

• Radar Range Equation

  • Radar Equation with Receiver’s Noise

  • Effects of Antenna Scanning Rate, Losses, Noise and Multiple Echoes on Range

  • Check Your Understanding

• Radar Cross-Section

  • Check Your Understanding

• Doppler Radar

  • Check Your Understanding

• Continuous-Wave Radar and Pulse Compression

  • Unmodulated CW Radar

  • Frequency-Modulated CW Radar

  • Pulse Compression Radar

  • Pseudo-Noise Modulated Continuous-Wave Radar

  • Check Your Understanding

• Synthetic Aperture Radar

  • Check Your Understanding

• Probabilities of Detection and False Alarm

  • Check Your Understanding

• Radar Displays and Indicators

  • Check Your Understanding

• Radar Signal Processing: Kalman Filtering

  • Heuristic Mean-Squared Error

  • Maximum Likelihood Mean-Squared Error

  • State Space Derivation of Kalman Filter

  • Check Your Understanding

• Review of Important Terms and Acronyms

• Review Questions and Problems

• Supplementary Reading