The objective of the course is to provide an in-depth understanding of basic physical principles and characteristic features in sensor technology, design, function and applications of different sensors.
- Understand the basic principles of sensor systems required for satellites and tactical aircraft
- Understand the atmospheric propagation and its impact on the performance of sensors
- Troubleshoot, repair/replace a faulty sensor in optimize process efficiency
- Physical principles underlying the sensor systems needed for satellites and tactical aircraft, as well as limitations imposed by the atmosphere and operating environment on these systems and their communication links
- Phased array and pulsed compressed radars, imaging synthetic aperture and inverse synthetic aperture radars
- Atmospheric propagation of signal. Noise resources and thermal radiation
- Principles of semiconductor devices. Optical and infrared imaging detector systems
- Detector resolution limitations and bandwidth requirements, Relationship between signals and noise
- The characteristics of critical sensor functions (including detection, estimation, imaging, and tracking)