Saturday, November 9, 2013

6.661 Receivers, Antennas, and Signals, Spring 2003. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Staelin, David. 6.661 Receivers, Antennas, and Signals, Spring 2003. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-661-receivers-antennas-and-signals-spring-2003 (Accessed 9 Nov, 2013). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

Course overview excerpted from Lecture 1. (Image by David Staelin.)
This course explores the detection and measurement of radio and optical signals encountered in communications, astronomy, remote sensing, instrumentation, and radar. Topics covered include: statistical analysis of signal processing systems, including radiometers, spectrometers, interferometers, and digital correlation systems; matched filters and ambiguity functions; communications channel performance; measurement of random electromagnetic fields, angular filtering properties of antennas, interferometers, and aperture synthesis systems; and radiative transfer and parameter estimation.

also:
O'Donnell, Robert. RES.LL-001 Introduction to Radar Systems, Spring 2007. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-ll-001-introduction-to-radar-systems-spring-2007 (Accessed 10 Nov, 2013). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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This set of 10 lectures (about 11+ hours in duration) was excerpted from a three-day course developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory to provide an understanding of radar systems concepts and technologies to military officers and DoD civilians involved in radar systems development, acquisition, and related fields. That three-day program consists of a mixture of lectures, demonstrations, laboratory sessions, and tours.

There is also an exceptional and extensive 19 lecture Radar Systems course by Dr. Robert M. O'Donnell (ex. Senior Staff at MIT/LL). The free video course (complete with over 1300 downloadable .pdf files of all charts) runs over 29 hours, but is broken down into ~20 minute digestible slices. Further info on both courses, along with appropriate links, can be found at
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r1/new_hampshire/courses/radar/index.php

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Dear Mr Prendergast, Thank you for posting this. I'm starved for information as courses such as this in my country (Australia) are hard to come by at any level.