Technical Seminar on Waveform Diversity and Design for Radar Systems: Historical Notes, Technical Topics and Way Ahead

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Technical Seminar Jointly Organized by IEEE AES/GRS Joint Singapore Chapter & Temasek Laboratories and the School of EEE, NTU

Title: Waveform Diversity and Design for Radar Systems: Historical Notes, Technical Topics and Way Ahead

Speaker: Dr. Alfonso FARINA

Historical Notes

 Etymology of ‘wave’

 Waveform in the History

 Pythagoras: Mathematics & Music

 A glimpse of the genesis

Waveform Diversity

 Hedy Lamarr and frequency hopping technique

 Waveform Diversity in Nature

 Waveform Diversity in Radar

Technical Topics

 Needs for Waveform Diversity in Radar & Application to Systems

 Basic Theory of Radar Waveforms

 References on Waveforms & Codes

 Typical Codes and their Inventors

 Ambiguity Function for Monostatic Radars

 Évariste Galois: a Mathematical Genius

 CRLB and Ambiguity Function Relationship

 Ambiguity Function for Bistatic Radars

 MIMO Systems and Space-Time Coding

Way Ahead

 Problems Related to Waveform Diversity

 Mitigation of EM Spectrum Erosion

 Matched Illumination for Target Detection (Early Experimental Work)

 Towards Modern Approach to Code Selection for Radar Performance Optimization

 Role of Information Theory in Waveform Design for Target Classification

 Towards Cognitive Radars

 Conclusions and Why Ahead

 

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