Lecture 19 from the Radar System Engineering course by Dr. Robert O'Donnell.

This document contains slides from a lecture on electronic countermeasures (ECM) against radar systems. It discusses how ECM techniques like chaff, noise jamming and random pulses can be used to mask targets from radar detection by increasing clutter. It provides details on how chaff works, including its reflectivity properties and how it is dispensed. Examples are given of chaff masking an aircraft and deceiving trackers. The presentation also introduces how electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM) can be used to counter ECM techniques.

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Lecture 18 from the Radar System Engineering course by Dr. Robert O'Donnell.

 This document provides an overview of a lecture on synthetic aperture radar (SAR). It begins with an introduction to SAR, including why it was developed due to limitations of conventional radar for imaging. It then discusses the basics of SAR and how it forms images using signal processing to synthesize a large antenna aperture. The document outlines the rest of the lecture topics which will cover SAR image formation techniques, examples, applications, and a history of the evolution of SAR from its origins in the 1950s to current systems.

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Lecture 17 from the Radar System Engineering course by Dr. Robert O'Donnell.

This document provides an overview of radar transmitter and receiver systems. It begins with an introduction and block diagram of radar transmitters and receivers. The bulk of the document then focuses on different types of high power tube amplifiers used in radar transmitters, including klystrons, traveling wave tubes, crossed field amplifiers, and magnetrons. It also briefly discusses solid state RF power amplifiers. The document concludes with an outline of topics to be covered, including receivers and waveform generators, other transmitter and receiver subsystems, and radar receiver-transmitter architectures.

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Lecture 16 from the Radar System Engineering course by Dr. Robert O'Donnell.

This document summarizes a lecture on parameter estimation and tracking. It discusses tracking processes like track association, initiation, maintenance through prediction and updating, and termination. Filtering techniques like the Kalman filter are presented as ways to estimate target position and velocity while accounting for noise and maneuvers. Examples of civilian and military target maneuvers are provided to illustrate the challenges of tracking.

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Lecture 15 from the Radar System Engineering course by Dr. Robert O'Donnell.

The document discusses a lecture on parameter estimation and tracking in radar systems. It covers topics like observable estimation including range, angle, Doppler, and amplitude measurement accuracy. It also discusses single target tracking techniques such as amplitude monopulse, phase comparison monopulse, sequential lobing, and conical scanning. The outline indicates it will cover multiple target tracking and provide a summary. Diagrams are included to illustrate concepts like angular tracking error sources and Doppler estimation.

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