{"id":192,"date":"2025-05-17T22:21:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ci4r\/?page_id=192"},"modified":"2025-12-13T23:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:00:31","slug":"ece-492-592-intro-to-radar-systems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ci4r\/ece-492-592-intro-to-radar-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"ECE 492\/592: Intro to Radar Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Introduction to basic principles of radar; radar range equation, phenomenology (target reflectivity models, clutter, stealth and scattering), radar measurements of range and velocity, basic radar waveforms, pulse compression, coherency. &nbsp;Radar system design with low-cost, low-power radio frequency (RF) sensors for applications such as health monitoring, human-computer interaction, and cyber-physical human systems. Hands-on experience will be gained through lab experiments\/projects conducted using software-defined CW\/FMCW radars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Recommended Pre-Requisites:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ECE 211\/ECE 331 Circuit Analysis and ECE 301 Linear Systems (or equivalents)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Textbooks:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Primary:  Principles of Modern Radar, volume 1: Basic Principles (Richards, Scheer, Holm)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fun to Read:  Introduction to Airborne Radar (George Stimpson)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Topics:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Radar History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Interaction of Electromagnetic Waves with Matter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Radar Range Equation (Point Target and Distributed)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Radar Clutter Modeling<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Radar Cross Section (RCS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6. Basic Radar Measurements and Transmit Waveforms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7. FMCW Radar and Stretch Processing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8. Micro-Doppler: Time-Frequency Analysis of Radar Data<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9. Statistical Modeling of Signals and Radar Target Detection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10. Synthetic Aperture Radar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">11. Cognitive (Fully-Adaptive) Radar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">12.  Applications to Cyber-Physical Human Systems (CPHS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Past Semesters<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ci4r\/fall-2025-introduction-to-radar-systems\/\">Fall 2025<\/a> &#8211; <em>Projects and Pictures<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description: Introduction to basic principles of radar; radar range equation, phenomenology (target reflectivity models, clutter, stealth and scattering), radar measurements of range and velocity, basic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ci4r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ci4r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ci4r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ci4r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ci4r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ci4r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ci4r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ci4r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}