Week 1               Overview and class procedures

                        Basic concepts and notation

                        What is an imaging radar ?

                        Elementary scattering theory

                        System design principles

                        Handouts for lectures: Handout 1 Handout 2 Handout 3

Week 2              Image formation

                        Radar as a signal processing problem

                        Range processing and matched filters

                        Pulse compression

                        FFT implementations

                        Handouts for lectures: Handout 5 Handout 6 Handout 7 Handout 10 Handout 11 Handout 12

Week 3              Azimuth processing

                        Real aperture radar

                        Range Doppler mapping

                        Unfocused SAR processing

                        Handouts for lectures: Handout 14 Handout 14a

Week 4              Synthetic aperture radar processing

                        Synthetic aperture technique

                        System impulse response

                        Azimuth correlator design

                        Handouts for lectures: Handout 15 Handout 17 Handout 19 Handout 20

Week 5              Range migration processing

                        Focussing and autofocus algorithms

                        Doppler tracking and filtering

                        Multilook processing

                        Midterm Examination through Lecture 2/3

                        Handouts for lectures: Handout 22 Handout 25 Handout 27

Week 6               Polarimetry

                        Scattering from vegetation

                        Radiometric calibration

                        Geometric distortion

                        Assignment and Discussion of Final Project

                        Handouts for lectures: Handout 28 Handout 31

Week 7              Interferometry

                        Interferometric radar

                        Interferometric processing implementation

                        Image registration

                        Baseline determination

                        Handouts for lectures: Handout 32 Handout 33 Handout 34

Week 8              Measurement of surface topography

                        Topographic algorithms

                        Application examples

                        Handouts for lectures: Handout 37 Handout 38 Handout 39 Handout 40

Week 9              Velocity measurements

                        Ocean current applications

                        Surface deformation measurements

                        Two- and three-pass algorithms

                        Earthquakes and volcanoes

                        Handouts for lectures: Handout 42 Handout 43 Handout 44

Week 10              Modern processing algorithms

                        Motion compensation processing

                        Back projection image formation

                        Handouts for lectures: Handout 45 Handout 46

Finals Week