The objective of the course is to provide an in-depth understanding of underwater acoustic principles, sonar technology and applications, hardware and software design engineers new to sonar system design.
- Know the basic building blocks of a radar system
- Have an in-depth knowledge on different types of signals that are used
- Know about the ambiguity function and its significance in radar signal processing
- Know the physics behind sound propagation in water and principle of operation of sonar
- Apply the knowledge acquired in this course in real time applications
- Mathematical development and discussion of fundamental principles that pertain to the design and operation of passive and active sonar systems critical to naval operation
- Topics from complex aperture theory, array theory
- Signal processing
- Introduction to undersea warfare and engineering acoustics
- Principles of optimal signal processing techniques for detecting signals in noise, maximum likelihood, Bayes risk
- Neyman-Pearson and min-max criteria and calculations of their associated error probabilities (ROC curves)
