Introduction To Radar Systems Skolnik
Prisc Chandola
Goals: The course introduces various radar system designs and their applications. Radar system architecture and the functionalities and limitations of subsystems are discussed. Theories of radar detection and estimation in the noisy and clutter environment are examined. Existing technologies and advanced techniques to improve radar performance are provided.
Skolnik served as superintendent of the radar division of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., for more than 30 years. While there, he made significant contributions including helping to develop high-frequency, over-the-horizon radar; a system that can identify friend or foe during combat; and high-resolution radar techniques.
For his work in the field, he was named the first recipient of the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications, in 2000. Picard was chief executive of Raytheon and helped the company become a leader in tactical missile systems.
He then joined the Institute for Defense Analyses, in Alexandria, Va. It provides technical advice to the U.S. Defense Department, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and other government entities. While there, he did pioneering work on thinned arrays and self-phasing array antennas. He also contributed to the fields of bistatic radars and electronic countermeasures.
In 1965 he became superintendent of the radar division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. He and his staff developed concepts for wideband shipboard air-surveillance radar with reduced susceptibility to electronic countermeasures; self-defense radar; and space-borne radar for detecting ships.
Behnke served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the Korean War before joining Commonwealth Edison. During his tenure at the company, he oversaw the design and construction of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor project, a sodium-cooled nuclear facility in Tennessee.
He was an IEEE member for nearly 60 years. He helped establish an IEEE student branch at Red River College, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He went on to hold several officer positions in the IEEE Winnipeg Section. He helped launch the IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade program, now IEEE Young Professionals.
He joined Grenoble University (now Universit Grenoble Alpes) in France in 1961 as a professor of electrical engineering. He was a visiting professor in 1983 at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ont., Canada. After returning to France, he became a professor of electrical engineering at the University Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne University), in Paris. He taught at the university until he retired in 2000.
Joanna Goodrich is the associate editor of The Institute, covering the work and accomplishments of IEEE members and IEEE and technology-related events. She has a master's degree in health communications from Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, N.J.
For fifty years Dr. Merrill Skolnik has served as a foremost expert on radar, leading one of the world's most productive radar research organizations, making significant personal research contributions, and writing and editing texts that are now standards in the field.
Dr. Skolnik served as Superintendent of the Radar Division of the Naval Research Laboratory between 1965 and 1996. During this period the Radar Division's achievements, many of which benefited directly from his research and development, were remarkable. Those that have been made public include a demonstration of HF over-the-horizon, new concepts for wideband shipboard air-surveillance radar, counter-stealth radar concepts, combat identification, inverse SAR for ship recognition, jet engine modulation of the radar echo for aircraft recognition, radar cross-section prediction and measurement, high-resolution radar techniques, sidelobe cancellation, adaptive antennas, airborne early-warning radar, radar to detect submerged submarines, low probability of intercept radar, self-defense radar systems, and spaceborne radar concepts for the world-wide detection of ships. He was a consultant to the Radar Division.
Earlier he conducted noteworthy research at several institutions, including the Institute for Defense Analyses, the Research Division of Electronic Communications, Inc., MIT Lincoln Laboratory, ECM development at Sylvania Electric, and the Johns Hopkins University Radiation Laboratory.
Both Introduction to Radar Systems, which Dr. Skolnik wrote, and The Radar Handbook, which he edited, are read and referred to by practically every radar professional. He also edited the influential Radar Applications. The author or co-author of more than a hundred articles, book chapters, and presentations, his writing also includes an article on radar printed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
A Fellow of the IEEE, and an active member throughout his career, he was a member and former Chairman of the IEEE Radar Systems Panel, and former editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE. The many awards he has won include the IEEE Harry Diamond Award, the IEEE Centennial Medal, the British Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers' Heinrich Hertz Premium, the Johns Hopkins Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award. He has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars.
The work is a comprehensive introduction to modern radar systems. The rudiments of electrical engineering are discussed from the perspective of radar systems, and an up-to-date description of radar systems and techniques is presented. Topics discussed include the radar equation, the electronically steered phased array antenna in radar, detection of radar signals in noise, extraction of information and waveform design, propagation of radar waves, and clutter.
In a world of smart cities, smart vehicles, intelligent navigation systems, the acquisition of remote information or remote sensing becomes a fundamental tool in current applications and in those that have to come. With a world that is more connected and better characterized and with applications that are reinforced in the ubiquity of information access, remote sensing can be found in diverse applications and sectors such as aeronautics, security, health, automotive or navigation systems.
In this subject, we will examine the theoretical design and practical aspects of the current remote sensing or radar systems as well as their applications. From the spectral analysis of the radar signal, the theory of statistical detection, to the design of the antenna, receivers, transmitters, waveform design, and information extraction of the processed signals. Covering a wide range of both commercial and government applications, but with a particular emphasis on Automotive radar for a connected and autonomous vehicle.
This subject presents an introduction to the radar by providing the operational foundations and the engineering foundations of this technology. The nature of the radar presented here, together with the physical phenomena and applications of the system, lay the foundations for future activities in the radar field.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
It will be evaluated the ability of the student to solve the problems through the delivered reports, autonomy in the resolution during the practice, the ability to work in a team with the colleagues of the group of practices and their diligence.
- Microwave Remote Sensing: Active and Passive, Vol. I -- Microwave Remote Sensing Fundamentals and Radiometry. F. T. Ulaby, R. K. Moore, and A.K. Fung, Addison-Wesley, Advanced Book Program, Massachusetts.
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