James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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PH5007:03

Radar Techniques

Townsville

Inadmissable Subject Combination: PH4001

25 lectures. Full year.

Staff: Professor M Heron.

Principles of modulation, simple pulsed radar, coherent radar, chirp, frequency modulated interrupted continuous wave; synthetic aperture. Special applications: satellite remote sensing radar, over-the-horizon HF radar, basic ionospheric propagation.

Learning Objectives:

  1. students will gain a working knowledge of radar principles and modern practice.

Assessment by a three-hour examination and assignments.


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