Signal Processing for Communications and Radar

Course title: Signal Processing for Communications and Radar

Code: 3ФЕИТ10З028

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+1+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course Goals (acquired competencies): The student will acquire theoretical and practical knowledge for the application of the techniques and algorithms for temporal and spatial signal processing in communications and radar, and will be able to implement in software a digital receiver, antenna array, sensor array and radar.

Total available number of classes: 180

Course Syllabus: A/D and D/A conversion. Application of digital filters in communications. Multirate signal processing: decimation and interpolation. Carrier and symbol timing synchronization. Digital down-conversion. Software implementation of digital transmitter and receiver. Principles of software defined radio (SDR). Software radio components. RTL-SDR, USRP, other SDR platforms. Signal processing with antenna arrays. Beamforming types. Angle of arrival estimation. Signal processing with sensor arrays and applications in acoustics, sonar, etc. Radar principles. Pulse radars and continuous wave radars. Radar detection in the presence of noise. SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) principles. SAR image formation. Radar applications for target range and velocity determination and for remote sensing in agriculture, hydrology, geology. Compressed sensing and sparsity based signal processing.

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