Radar engineering: Basic principles, radar equations, factors influencing maximum range, power and frequencies used in radar. Radar cross section, information contents in radar signals, noise and clutter, radar detectors. Types of radar: Basic pulsed radar system, bandwidth requirements, factors governing pulsed characteristics, duplexer, moving target indicator. Doppler and MTI radars, pulse compression, CW and FM-CW radar, radar transmitter and receivers, introduction to polarimetric radar and synthetic aperture radar. Tracking systems and search systems of radar. Radar antennas: Parabolic, lenses, cosecant squared antenna. Introduction to satellite communication. Satellite frequency bands, satellite orbits, satellite types, regulation of the spectrum and interference, propagation channel, air interfaces, link budget analysis, digital modulation, error correction codes, multiple access, receiver synchronization, baseband processing, fixed and mobile applications, basics of satellite networking.
