Radar Processing and Systems (4 CFU – 28 h)

Elements of Wave Propagation. The Radar Equation. Radar Cross Section. Radar Resolution. Doppler Frequency. Monopulse Radar.Radar Signals and Networks. Range Measurements and Tracking in Radar. Radar Measurements-Limiting Accuracy. Radar Equation with Jamming. Effects of the Earth’s Surface on the Radar Equation. Atmospheric Attenuation. The Matched Filter techniques and the Ambiguity function. Analog and Discrete Coded Waveforms. Filtering techniques. Radar Antennas, Arrays and Systems.

Synthetic Aperture Radar (2 CFU - 14 h)

Electromagnetic scattering models for remote sensing: natural surfaces and urban areas. Physical optics (PO) and geometrical optics (GO). Scan mode and spot mode (signal analysis and data processing). Strip Mode Transfer Function and Data Processing. Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry.

Microwave Imaging Techniques (1 CFU – 7h)

Ill-posedness and non-linearity. Regularization and linearized scattering models: Born, Rytov and Kirchhoff approximation. Minimum energy solution and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). Optimization problems and Gradient based methods.

Topics lectures in collaboration with companies, universities and research centers (1 CFU – 7 h)

Automotive Radar / Direction Finding (Angle of Arrival)

Ground Penetrating Radar / Through-the-Wall Imaging

Microwave Medical Imaging / Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Radar / Mw-Mm Waves Diagnostics of Plasma

Laboratory (1 CFU – 25 h)

RADAR and SAR data processing with Matlab

Acquisition and processing of radar signals by means of a compact mm-waves radar prototype

RCS measurement of canonical target in anechoic chamber

Visit at Sigonella/Fontanarossa/Etna radar (INGV) base stations (in collaboration with ENAV–TechnoSky / US Navy / INGV)

1) Radar Priciples, Peyton Z. Peebles, John Wiley & Sons Inc

2) Radar signal analysis and processing using MATLAB,Bassem R. Mahafza, CRC Press

3) Radar Principles, Nadav Levanov, Wiley

4) Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing, G. Franceschetti and R. Lanari, CRC Press

5) Introduction to Inverse Problems in Imaging,M.Bertero, P.Boccacci,C. De Mol,Taylor & Francis.