Introduction to Airborne Radar

Duration: 3 Days

The third edition of Stimson’s Introduction to Airborne Radar has been acclaimed as ‘an absolute must have for all radar enthusiasts … widely acknowledged as the only book to offer a complete overview of modern airborne radar principles of the last 15-20 years’. This three day course covers all of the material in the book in the same graphical style, explaining complex concepts in a clear and easily-understood manner, with numerous examples of modern systems and results.

Course content:

• Basic concepts
• Essential groundwork
• Choice of radar frequency
• Pulsed operation
• The radar equation
• FMCW radar
• Pulse Doppler
• Clutter
• Air-to-air operation
• Imaging radar
• Electronic warfare
• Special topics and advanced concepts
• Representative radar systems

Hugh Griffiths holds the Thales/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of RF Sensors at University College London, UK. He served as President of the IEEE AES Society for 2012/13, is a member of the IEEE AES Radar Systems Panel, and is Editor-in-Chief of the IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation journal. He has won numerous awards including the 2017 IEEE Picard Medal and the 2013 IET A F Harvey Prize.