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Table of Contents
Radar, Missiles & Combat
AESA Radar Applications
Mar 1-3, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Aircraft Avionics Flight Test
Apr 5-7, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Aircraft Electro-Optical Avionics Flight Test
May 10-12, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Digital Signal Processing Introduction
Apr 19-21, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Electronic Warfare - Overview of Technology & Operations
Feb 22-25, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Electronic Warfare - The New Threat Enviroment NEW!
May 9-12, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
GPS and International Competitors
Feb 22-25, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Missile System Design
Feb 22-25, 2016 • Orlando, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Modern Missile Analysis
Mar 8-11, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Multi-Target Tracking & Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
Jun 14-16, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Naval Weapons Principles
May 9-12, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Radar 101 / Radar 201
Mar 15-16, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Radar Systems Design & Engineering
Jan 25-28, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Radar Systems Fundamentals
Feb 23-25, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Six Degrees of Freedom Modeling NEW!
Feb 9-10, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Jul 12-13, 2016 • Orlando. Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Software Defined Radio – Practical Applications NEW!
Synthetic Aperture Radar
May 17-19, 2016 • Pasadena, California . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Tactical Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR)
Apr 12-13, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Space & Satellite Systems
Astrodynamics
Jan 25-28, 2016 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . 22
Mar 1-4, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Attitude Determination & Control
Design & Analysis of Bolted Joints
Mar 22-24, 2016 • Littleton, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Earth Station Design
Ground Systems Design & Operations
Apr 25-27, 2016 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . 26
Satellite Communications - An Essential Introduction
Satellite Communications - State of the Art
Feb 9-11, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Satellite Communications Design & Engineering
Apr 5-7, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Satellite Laser Communications
Satellite Link Budget Training Using SatMaster Software
Space-Based Laser Systems
May 11-12, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Space Environment & Its Effects on Space Systems
Feb 22-25, 2016 • Cocoa Beach, Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Space Mission Structures
Apr 19-22, 2016 • Littleton, Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Space Systems Fundamentals
Feb 1-4, 2016 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . 35
Feb 29 - Mar 3, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . 35
Spacecraft Systems Integration and Testing
Engineering & Data Analysis
Antenna & Array Fundamentals
Apr 18-20, 2016 • California, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Jun 6-8, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Computational Electromagnetics
Apr 21-22, 2016 • California, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Jun 9-10, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Data: Visualizaton
Apr 5-7, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
EMI/EMC in Military Systems
Fiber Optic Communication Systems Engineering
Kalman, H-Infinity, and Nonlinear Estimation Approaches
May 24-26, 2016 • Laurel, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Radio Frequency Interference (RFI)
Feb 16-18, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
RF Engineering - Fundamentals
Feb 16-17, 2016 • Laurel, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Robotics for Military & Civil Applications
May 2-5, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Acoustic & Sonar Engineering
Advanced Topics In Underwater Acoustics
AUV and ROV Technology
Ocean Optics NEW!
Feb 17-18, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Sonar Principles & ASW Analysis
Apr 12-14, 2016 • Panama City, Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
May 17-19, 2016 • San Diego, California. . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Sonar Signal Processing
Apr 5-7, 2016 • Bremmerton, Washington . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Sonar Systems Design
Jun 21-23, 2016 • Honolulu, Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Sonar Transducer Design Fundamentals
May 10-12, 2016 • Newport, Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . 52
Submarines & Submariners – An Introduction
Underwater Acoustics, Modeling and Simulation
Apr 4-7, 2016 • Bay St. Louis, Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Systems Engineering & Project Management
CSEP Preparation
May 17-19, 2016 • Los Angeles, California . . . . . . . . . . 55
Model-Based Systems Engineering Fundamentals
Mar 1, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Model-Based Systems Engineering Applications
Modeling & Simulation in the Systems Engineering Process NEW!
May 18-19, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
PMP® Certification Exam Boot Camp
Feb 22-26 2016 • Online Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Feb 29 - Mar 3, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . 59
Mar 14-18 2016 • Online Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Systems Engineering - Requirements
Jan 26-28, 2016 • Los Angeles, California. . . . . . . . . . . 60
May 17-19, 2016 • Los Angeles, California . . . . . . . . . . 60
Team-Based Problem Solving NEW!
Mar 22-23, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Topics for On-site Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Applied Technology Institute International . . . . 63

Instructor
Dr. Menchem Levitas has forty four years of experience in
science and engineering, thirty six of which
have consisted of direct radar and weapon
systems analysis, design, and development.
Throughout his tenure he has provided
technical support for many shipboard and
airborne radar programs in many different
areas including system concept definition,
electronic protection, active arrays, signal
and data processing, requirement analyses,
and radar phenomenology. He is a recipient of the AEGIS
Excellence Award for the development of a novel radar cross-
band calibration technique in support of wide-band operations
for high range resolution. He has developed innovative
techniques in many areas e.g., active array self-calibration
and failure-compensation, array multi-beam-forming,
electronic protection, synthetic wide-band, knowledge-based
adaptive processing, waveforms and waveform processing,
and high fidelity, real-time, littoral propagation modeling. He
has supported many AESA programs including the Air Force’s
Ultra Reliable Radar (URR), the Atmospheric Surveillance
Technology (AST), the USMC’s Ground/Air Task Oriented
Radar (G/ATOR), the 3D Long Range Expeditionary Radar
(3DLRR), and others. Prior to his retirement in 2013 he had
been the chief scientist of Technology Service Corporation’s
Washington Operations.
What You Will Learn
• The evolution of radar systems from mechanical rotators to
ESA and AESA.
• Fundamental principles and concepts of ESA and AESA.
• Major advantages and challenges of AESA radar systems.
• Required support technologies of AESA arrays.
• Key applications of AESA radar in surface and airborne
platforms.
• State-of-the-art advances in related radar technologies –
i.e., radar waveforms.
Course Outline
1. Introduction. The evolution of radar from mechanical rotators
through ESA to AESA. The driving elements, the benefits, and the
challenges. Applications that benefit from the new technology.
2. Radar Subsystems. Transmitter, antenna, receiver and signal
processor ( Pulse Compression and Doppler filtering principles,
automatic detection with adaptive detection threshold, the CFAR
mechanism, sidelobe blanking angle estimation), the radar control
program and data processor.
3. Electronically Scanned Antenna (ESA). Fundamental
concepts, directivity and gain, elements and arrays, near and far field
radiation, element factor and array factor, illumination function and
Fourier transform relations, beamwidth approximations, array tapers
and sidelobes, electrical dimension and errors, array bandwidth,
steering mechanisms, grating lobes, phase monopulse, beam
broadening, examples.
4. Solid State Active Phased Arrays (AESA). What is AESA,
Technology and architecture. Analysis of AESA advantages and
penalties. Emerging requirements that call for AESA, Issues at T/R
module, array, and system levels. Emerging technologies. Examples.
5. Module Failure and Array Auto-compensation. The ‘bathtub’
profile of module failure rates and its three regions, burn-in and
accelerated stress tests, module packaging and periodic replacements,
cooling alternatives, effects of module failure on array pattern. Array
failure-compensation techniques.
6. Auto-calibration of Active Phased Arrays. Driving issues,
types of calibration, auto-calibration via elements mutual coupling,
principal issues with calibration via mutual-coupling, some properties of
the different calibration techniques.
7. Multiple Simultaneous Beams. Why multiple beams,
independently steered beams vs. clustered beams, alternative
organization of clustered beams and their implications, quantization
lobes in clustered beams arrangements and design options to mitigate
them. Relation to AESA.
8. Surface Radar. Principal functions and characteristics, nearness
and extent of clutter, anomalous propagation, dynamic range, signal
stability, time, and coverage requirements, transportation requirements
and their implications, bird/angel clutter and its effects on radar design.
The role of AESA.
9. Airborne Radar. Principal functions and characteristics, Radar
bands, platform velocity, pulse repetition frequency (PRF) categories
and their properties, clutter spectrum, dynamic range, sidelobe
blanking, mainbeam clutter, clutter filtering, blindness and ambiguity
resolution post detection STC. The role of AESA.
10. Modern Advances in Waveforms. Traditional Pulse
Compression: time-bandwidth and range resolution fundamentals,
figures of merit, existing codes description. New emerging
requirements, arbitrary WFG with state of the art optimal codes and
filters in response. MIMO radar. MIMO waveform techniques and
properties, relation to antenna architecture, and the role of AESA in the
implementation of the above.
11. Synthetic Aperture Radar. Real vs. synthetic aperture, real
beam limitations, derivations of focused array resolution, unfocused
arrays, motion compensation, range-gate drifting, synthetic aperture
modes, waveform restrictions, processing throughputs, synthetic
aperture 'monopulse' concepts.. MIMO SAR and the role of AESA.
12. High Range Resolution via Synthetic Wideband. Principle of
high range resolution - instantaneous and synthetic, synthetic wideband
generation, grating lobes and instantaneous band overlap, cross-band
dispersion, cross-band calibration, examples.
13. Adaptive Cancellation and STAP. Adaptive cancellation
overview, broad vs. directive auxiliary patterns, sidelobe vs. mainbeam
cancellation, bandwidth and arrival angle dependence, tap delay lines,
space sampling, and digital arrays, range Doppler response example,
space-time adaptive processing (STAP), system and array
requirements, STAP processing alternatives. Digital arrays and the role
of AESA.
14. Radar Modeling and Simulation Fundamentals. Radar
development and testing issues that drive the increasing reliance on
M&S, purpose, types of simulations - power domain, signal domain,
H/W in the loop, modern simulation framework tools, examples: power
domain modeling, signal domain modeling, antenna array modeling, fire
finding modeling.
15. Radar Tracking. Functional block diagram, what is radar
tracking, firm track initiation and range, track update, track
maintenance, algorithmic alternatives (association via single or multiple
hypotheses, tracking filters options), role of electronically steered arrays
in radar tracking.
16. Key Radar Challenges and Advances. Key radar challenges,
key advances (transmitter, antenna, signal stability, digitization and
digital processing, waveforms, algorithms).
March 1-3, 2016
Columbia, Maryland
$1790 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 Each
Off The Course Tuition.
Summary
While offering performance that is inherently
superior to conventional systems, AESA radar is
technologically and architecturally more complex. In
this three-day course, participants will learn why the
AESA radar has become the system of choice on
modern platforms by understanding its capabilities and
constraints, and how these capabilities and constraints
come about as a result of the AESA approach. This
course will then proceed to describe in detail several
key surface and airborne radar applications that have
been used in traditional radar systems, in which
performance is enhanced by the AESA class of radar.
Essential support technologies such as antenna auto
calibration, antenna auto compensation, and radar
modeling and simulation will also be covered.
AESA Radar Applications
Course # D350

Instructor
Robert E. McShea, Aeronautical Engineering,
Syracuse University, is a leading
Aircraft Avionics Flight Consultant.
Previous positions include Director,
Avionics and Systems Academic
Programs at the National Test Pilot
School, Mojave, CA, Senior Technical
Specialist at the Northrop Grumman
Corporation in Palmdale, California. He was
employed by the Grumman Corporation in
Calverton Long Island as a Group Manager for
Avionics and Weapons Systems Test, He is the
author of the text, Test and Evaluation of Aircraft
Avionics and Weapons systems, which is used as a
text for this course.
What You Will Learn
• Be familiar with types of Data Busses, Avionic systems
specifications and regulations, and the causes of EMI.
• Understand the unique problems associated with Avionics
and Weapons Testing,1553 data bus architectures, Data
collection, reading, and data analysis procedures.
Course Outline
1. Why Systems Flight Test. What are the
Differences between Systems Test and P&FQ
Testing? What is the difference between
Development versus Demonstration Programs?
What are the differences between Contractor, DT,
and OT Testing.
2. Time, Space, Position Information (TSPI).
What drives TSPI Requirements; and what are the
accuracies of TSPI systems in use today.
3. Data Bus Architecture. How is data
transferred amongst avionics systems? Description,
operation and applications of the following data bus
types are described: 1553 Data Busses, 1760,
ARINC 429/629, EBR 1553, STANAG 3910, Fiber
Channel, and TCP/IP.
4. Data Acquisition, Reduction and Analysis.
How is data acquired from the aircraft? Typical Pulse
Code Modulation (PCM) systems are explained as
well as digital data and video capture systems.
5. Whenever current is flowing EM fields are
present. These fields can wreak havoc on aircraft
avionics systems. The lectures will cover EMI/EMC,
how to test for it (bonding, Victim/Source, Near and
Far Field) and how to avoid interference.
Summary
This three-day course emphasizes the
fundamental knowledge needed by evaluators for all
aircraft avionics systems evaluations. The lectures
lay the foundation on which all avionics systems
evaluations are accomplished. Evaluations are
accomplished. This module is designed to provide
the “big picture” of Systems testing. The course
identifies the differences between systems and
vehicle testing with emphasis on digital architecture.
1553 Data Bus architecture is described in detail, and
the student is also exposed to ARINC 429, Mil-Std
1760, Firewire, EBR-1553 and other future
applications. Time, Space, Position Information is
described in its relation and importance to Systems
testing.
The audience for this course includes flight test
engineers, program managers, flight test range and
instrumentation support, military and civilian
aerospace workers. Flight Test Range and
Instrumentation support. The course is appropriate
for newly hired or assigned personnel at these
locations as well as seasoned veterans in the Test
and Evaluation areas.
April 5-7, 2016
Columbia, Maryland
$1790 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Aircraft Avionics Flight Test
Course # D187

Instructor
Robert E. McShea, Aeronautical Engineering, Syracuse
University, President, Aircraft Avionics Flight
Test Consultants, LLC. Previous positions
include Director, Avionics and Systems
Academic Programs at the National Test Pilot
School, Mojave, CA, Senior Technical
Specialist at the Northrop Grumman
Corporation in Palmdale, California. He was
employed by the Grumman Corporation in
Calverton Long Island as a Group Manager for Avionics and
Weapons Systems Test, He is the author of the text, Test and
Evaluation of Aircraft Avionics and Weapons systems, 2nd
edition which is used as a text for this course.
What You Will Learn
• Be familiar with the history, evolution and application of EO
and IR systems.
• Understand the theory, flight test procedures, techniques
and data analysis associated with electro-optic systems.
• You will also understand atmospheric propagation, target
signatures. sources of radiation.
• Spatial frequency and range predictions.
• Electro-optic and infra-red test techniques, lasers and laser
range finders.
Course Outline
1. Radiation Theory. Reviews radiation theory while
the remainder presents a detailed analysis of typical
active and passive Electro-optical systems
components. The instruction stresses the most correct
and efficient means of evaluating these systems and
predicting systems performance in both ground and
flight environments.
2. History, Evolution and Current Applications of
EO Systems, EO Components (to include choices of
detector elements) and Performance Requirements of
Active and Passive EO Devices.
3. Sources of Radiation. Atmospheric Properties of
Radiation, Target Signatures, Target Tracking and
Automatic Target Recognition.
4. Target Discrimination and Range Predictions.
5. Passive EO Systems Flight Test Techniques
and Active EO Systems Flight Test.
6. Two In-Class Exercises allow the students to
calculate spatial frequencies and predict target
discrimination ranges for multiple Imaging Systems.
Summary
This three-day course emphasizes the fundamental
knowledge needed by evaluators to successfully
demonstrate functionality and performance of aircraft
installed Electro-optical systems. This course is
designed to provide the first the theoretical concepts
behind EO systems and to then cover the testing
necessary to verify system performance.
The lectures will cover Infra-red, TV and LASER
systems: physics behind the design, types of thermal
imaging devices, spatial frequency, range finders and
designators, importance of optics and Modulation
Transfer Functions (MTF).
The audience for this course includes Flight Test
Engineers, Program Managers, military and civilian
aerospace workers, and DT/OT evaluators. The
course is appropriate for newly hired or assigned
personnel at these locations as well as seasoned
veterans in the Test and Evaluation areas.
Aircraft Electro-Optical Avionics Flight Test
Course # D188
May 10-12, 2016
Columbia, Maryland
$1790 (8:30am - 4:30pm)

Instructor
Dr. Brian Jennison is a Principal Engineer at
the Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory, where
he has worked on signal processing
efforts for radar, sonar, chemical
detectors, and other sensor
systems. He holds M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Electrical Engineering
from Purdue University and a B.S. degree in
Electrical Engineering from the Missouri
University of Science and Technology. He
currently serves as Chair of the Electrical and
Computer Engineering program for the Johns
Hopkins University Engineering for Professionals,
where he has taught courses in signals and
systems, multi-dimensional and multi-rate digital
signal processing.
Summary
This 3-day course provides an overview of
digital signal processing (DSP) tools and
techniques used to analyze digital signals and
systems while also treating the design of DSP
systems to perform important DSP operations
such as signal spectral estimation, frequency
selective filtering, and sample rate conversion. In
contrast to typical DSP courses that needlessly
focus on mathematical details and intricacies, this
course emphasizes the practical tools utilized to
create state-of-the-art DSP systems commonly
used in real-world applications.
MATLAB is used throughout the course to
illustrate important DSP concepts and properties,
permitting the attendees to develop an intuitive
understanding of common DSP functions and
operations. MATLAB routines are used to design
and implement DSP filter structures for frequency
selection and multirate applications.
The course is valuable to engineers and
scientists who are entering the signal processing
field or as a review for professionals who desire a
cohesive overview of DSP with illustrations and
applications using MATLAB. A comprehensive
set of notes and references as well as all custom
MATLAB routines used in the course will be
provided to the attendees.
What You Will Learn
• Compute and interpret the frequency-domain
content of a discrete-time signal.
• Design and implement finite-impulse response
(FIR) and infinite-impulse response (IIR) digital
filters, to satisfy a given set of specifications.
• Apply digital signal processing techniques
learned in the course to applications in multirate
signal processing.
• Utilize MATLAB to analyze digital signals,
design digital filters, and apply these filters for a
practical DSP system.
Course Outline
1. Discrete-Time Signals & Systems.
Frequency concepts in continuous- and discrete-
time. Fourier Series and Fourier Transforms.
Linear time-invariant systems, convolution, and
frequency response.
2. Sampling. The Sampling Theorem,
Aliasing, and Sample Reconstruction. Amplitude
Quantization and Companding.
3. The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT)
and Spectral Analysis. Definition and properties
of the DFT, illustrated in MATLAB. Zero-padding,
windowing, and efficient computational
algorithms – the Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs).
Circular Convolution and Linear Filtering with the
FFT. Overlap-add and overlap-save techniques.
4. Design of Digital Finite-Impulse
Response (FIR) Filters. Filter Specifications in
Magnitude and Phase. Requirements for linear
phase. FIR filter design in MATLAB with Windows
and Optimum Equiripple techniques.
5. Design of Digital Infinite-Impulse
Response (IIR) Filters. The z-transform and
system stability. Butterworth, Chebyshev, and
Elliptic filter prototypes. IIR filter design in
MATLAB using impulse invariance and the
Bilinear Transformation.
6. Applications in Multirate Signal
Processing. Signal decimation and interpolation.
Sample rate conversion by a rational factor.
Efficient implementation of narrowband filters.
Polyphase filters.
April 19-21, 2016
Columbia, Maryland
$1790 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
"Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 each
Off The Course Tuition."
Digital Signal Processing Introduction
With Practical Applications in MATLAB Course # E137

Summary
This four-day practical, comprehensive course addresses
the latest technology for EW and ELINT. It also addresses
critical operational employment of EW/ELINT systems.
Additional targeted focus is directed to digital signal
processing theory, methods, proven techniques and
algorithms with practical applications to ELINT lessons
learned. Directed primarily to ELINT/EW engineers and
scientists responsible for new EW and ELINT digital signal
processing system software and hardware design,
installation, operation and evaluation, it is also appropriate for
those having management or technical leadership
responsibility.
Instructor
Dr. Clayton Stewart has over 30 years of
experience performing across the
spectrum of research direction, line
management, program management,
system engineering, engineering
education, flight operations, and
research and development. He is
currently Visiting Professor, Department
of Electronic & Electrical Engineering,
University College London, and is consultant on
international S&T engagement with clients including
DARPA, NSF, and JHU Applied Physics Lab. He
recently served as the Technical Director for ONR
Global. He managed the Reconnaissance and
Surveillance Operation at SAIC. He was Associate
Professor of ECE and Associate Director of the C3I
Center at George Mason University. He served as an
Electronic Warfare officer and engineer in the USAF.
What You Will Learn
• State-of-the-Art EW/ELINT techniques and
technologies.
• The latest technology and systems used for
electronic attack.
• Practical operational considerations in the
employment of EW.
• Highlights of targeted threat radars.
• New ELINT receivers and direction finding systems.
• Critical Digital Signal Processing Techniques.
• Application of proven DSP techniques to EW/ELINT
systems.
• Fundamental performance analysis and error
estimating.
From this course you will obtain comprehensive,
practical knowledge and understanding of modern
EW/ELINT systems and operations with
applications of digital signal processing while
highlighting the balance between theory with
practice.
February 22-25, 2016
Columbia, Maryland
$2145 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Electronic Warfare - Overview of Technology & Operations
A Comprehensive Look at Modern EW/ELINT Technology, Systems, & Applications Course # D135
Course Outline
1. Electronic Warfare Overview. State-of -the-Art
ELINT/ESM (ES). Intelligence processes. Types of ELINT.
Critical Operational Considerations. Targeted ELINT and
EW platforms. Latest Technology for Electronic Attack:
Jamming, Chaff, New Antiradiation Missiles. Proven Types
of Jamming: Spot, Barrage, Deception. Self Defense and
Support Jamming Lessons Learned. Practical Operational
Employment of EW Against Integrated Air Defense
Systems.
2. Signals and the EM Environment. EM waves.
State-of -the-Art Radar Systems. Radar Waveforms.
Advances in Types of Antennas. Antenna Patterns.
Targeted Types of Radars. Radar cross section (RCS) and
stealth. Some Threat Radars. Critical Communications
Threats. Practical EW Against Radar.
3. Antennas and Receivers. Highlight Latest
Technology for Radar Warning Receivers and ELINT
Receivers. Receiver Performance Parameters: Sensitivity,
Dynamic Range, Noise Figure. Critical Detection
Fundamentals - Pd, Pfa, SNR. Comprehensive Look at
Proven Receiver Architectures: Crystal Video, IFM,
Channelized, Superheterodyne, Compressive, and New
Acousto–Optic. Relative Advantages of Different Practical
Receiver Architectures.
4. Architectures for Direction Finding. State-of -the-
Art DF and Location Techniques: DOA, Amp. Comparison,
TDOA, Interferometer. EM Propagation. Performance
Comparisons. Trends: New Wideband, Multi-Function,
Digital. Practical Operational employment of DF Systems
Lessons Learned and Avoiding Common Mistakes.
5. Digital Signal Processing. Basic DSP Operations,
Sampling Theory, Quantization: Nyquist. Aliasing, FFT, Z-
Transform, Quadrature Demodulation: Direct Digital
Down-conversion. Advances in Practical Digital Receiver
Components: Signal Conditioning, Anti-Aliasing, Analog-
to-Digital Converters (ADC).
6. DSP Components. Demodulators, Differentiators,
Interpolators, Decimators, Equalizers, Detection and
Measurement Blocks, Proven Filters (IIR and FIR), Multi-
Rate Filters and DSP, Clocks, Timing, Synchronization,
Embedded Processors. Highlight Digital Receiver
Advantages and Technology Trends.
7. Measurement Basics. Comprehensive Overview of
Targeted Error Definitions, Metrics, Averaging Statistics
and Confidence Levels for System Assessment. Error
Sources & Statistical Distributions of Interest to System
Designers. Basic Statistical Analysis.
8 Parameter Errors. Thermal Noise. Phase &
Quantization Noise. Critical Noise Modeling and SNR
Estimation. Parameter Errors for Correlated Samples.
Simultaneous Signal Interference. A/D Performance.
Proven Performance Assessment Methods.

What You Will Learn
• Concepts and strategies of Electromagnetic
Spectrum Warfare.
• Important EW calculations (including J/S ratio, Burn-
through range, Intercept range, etc.)
• EW impact of improved capabilities of new radar and
communications threat systems.
• New EW systems and strategies required to counter
modern threats.
• Capabilities and applications of digital RF memories.
• Capabilities of modern IR weapons and
countermeasures.
• Capabilities of radar decoys.
Instructor
Dave Adamy has over 50 years experience
developing EW systems from DC to
Light, deployed on platforms from
submarines to space, with
specifications from QRC to high
reliability. For the last 30 years, he has
run his own company, performing
studies for the US Government and
defense contractors. He has also presented dozens of
courses in the US and allied countries on Electronic
Warfare and related subjects. He has published over
250 professional articles on Electronic Warfare,
receiver system design and closely related subjects,
including the popular EW101 column in the Journal of
Electronic Defense. He holds an MSEE
(Communication theory) and has 16 books in print.
Summary
A new generation of threats has created a significant
number of new challenges to Electronic Warfare
equipment and tactics. This is a practical, hands-on
course which covers Spectrum Warfare and current EW
approaches, and moves on to discuss the new
equipment capabilities and Tactics that are required to
meet the new threat challenges.
This four-day course covers Spectrum Warfare,
including the nature of this newly recognized “battle-
space.” It also covers legacy and next generation threat
radars, digital communication theory and practice, and
legacy communication threats, digital RF Memories,
new developments in Infrared threats and
countermeasures, and modern radar decoys.
Each section of the course includes lecture,
discussion and practical in-class problems.
The new text book, Electronic Warfare - Against a
New Generation of Threats (2015) is included with the
course.
Course Outline
1. EW Principals & Overview. Review of Electronic
Warfare basics and dB math.
2. Electronic Spectrum Warfare. Description of
current threat systems and the EW techniques used
against them.
3. Next Generation Threat Radars. Description of
new threat systems developed to counter current EW
techniques and equipment.
4. Digital Communication. Digital communication
theory and its application to modern communication
threat systems including integrated air defense
systems.
5. Legacy Comm Threats. Current hostile military
communication and the countermeasures used against
them.
6. Modern Comm Threats. New generation hostile
communications systems – including IEDs and the EW
techniques used against them.
7. DRFMs. Description of digital RF memory
hardware & software and their application to EW
operations.
8. IR Threats and CM. Legacy and new generation
IR threats and the countermeasures used against them.
9. Radar Decoys. Modern radar decoys and how
they protect airborne and shipboard assets.
Electronic Warfare - The New Threat Enviroment
Course # D137
May 9-12, 2016
Columbia, Maryland
$2195 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
NEW!

GPS and International Competitors
International Navigation Solutions for Military, Civilian, and Aerospace Applications Course # D162
"The presenter was very energetic and truly
passionate about the material"
" Tom Logsdon is the best teacher I have ever
had. His knowledge is excellent. He is a 10!"
"Mr. Logsdon did a bang-up job explaining
and deriving the theories of special/general
relativity–and how they are associated with
the GPS navigation solutions."
"I loved his one-page mathematical deriva-
tions and the important points they illus-
trate."
Summary
An astonishing total of 128 radionavigation satellites
will soon be in orbiting along the space frontier. They
will be owned and operated by six different sovereign
nations hoping to capitalize on the financial success of
the GPS constellation.
In this four-day short course,Tom Logsdon
describes in detail how these various international
navigation systems work and reviews the many
practical benefits they are providing to civilian and
military users scattered around the globe. Logsdon will
explain how each radionavigation system works and
how you can use it in practical situations .
Columbia, Maryland
$1990 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Register 3 or More & Receive $10000
Each
Course Outline
1. International Radionavigation Satellites. The
Russian Glonass. The American GPS. The European
Galileo. The Chinese Biedou. The Indian IRNSS. The
Japanese QZSS. Geosynchronous overlay satellites.
2. Radionavigation Concepts. Active and
passive radionavigation systems. Positions and
velocity solutions. Maintaining nanosecond timing
accuracies. Today’s spaceborne atomic clocks.
Websites and other sources of information. Building
today’s $200 billion radionavigation empire in space.
3. Introducing the GPS. Signal structure and
pseudorandom codes. Modulation techniques.
Practical performance-enhancements. Relativistic time
dilations. Inverted navigation solutions.
4. Russia’s Highly Capable Glonass
Constellation. Performance capability. Orbital
mechanics considerations. The Glonass subsystems.
Russia’s SL-12 Proton booster. Building dual-capability
receivers. Glonass featured in the evening news.
5. Navigation Solutions and Kalman Filtering
Techniques. Taylor series expansions. Numerical
iteration. Doppler shift solutions. Kalman filtering
algorithms.
6. Designing Radionavigation Receivers. The
functions of a modern receiver. Antenna design
techniques. Code tracking and carrier tracking loops.
Commercial chipsets. Military receivers. Navigation
solutions for orbiting satellites.
7. Military Applications. Military test ranges.
Tactical and strategic applications. Autonomy and
survivability enhancements. Smart bombs and artillery
projectiles. The special Paveway weapon systems.
8. Integrated Navigation. Strapdown
Implementaions. Ring lasers and fiber-optic gyros.
Integrated navigation systems. Those amazing MIMS
devices.
9. Differential Navigation and Pseudosatellites.
Special committee 104’s data exchange protocols.
Global data distribution. Wide-area differential
navigation. Pseudosatellites.
10. Carrier-Aided Solutions. Attitude-
determination receivers. Spaceborne systems.
Accuracy comparisons. Dynamic and kinematic orbit
determination. Motorola’s spaceborne monarch
receiver. Relatiivistic time-dilation derivations.
Relativistic effects due to orbital eccentricity.
Instructor
Tom Logsdon has worked on the GPS
radionavigation satellites and their
constellation for more than 20 years. He
helped design the Transit Navigation
System and the GPS and he acted as a
consultant to the European Galileo
Spaceborne Navigation System. His key
assignments have included constellation
selection trades, military and civilian applications, force
multiplier effects, survivability enhancements and
spacecraft autonomy studies.
Over the past 30 years Logsdon has taught more
than 300 short courses. He has also made two dozen
television appearances, helped design an exhibit for
the Smithsonian Institution, and written and published
1.7 million words, including 29 non fiction books.
These include Understanding the Navstar, Orbital
Mechanics, and The Navstar Global Positioning
System.
www.aticourses.com/gps_technology.htm
Video!

Who Should Attend
The course is oriented toward the needs of missile
engineers, systems engineers, analysts, marketing
personnel, program managers, university professors, and
others working in the area of missile systems and technology
development. Attendees will gain an understanding of missile
design, missile technologies, launch platform integration,
missile system measures of merit, and the missile system
development process.
What You Will Learn
• Key drivers in the missile design and system engineering
process.
• Critical tradeoffs, methods and technologies in subsystems,
aerodynamic, propulsion, and structure sizing.
• Launch platform-missile integration.
• Robustness, lethality, guidance navigation & control,
accuracy, observables, survivability, safty, reliability, and
cost considerations.
• Missile sizing examples.
• Development process for missile systems and missile
technologies.
• Design, build, and fly competition.
Instructor
Eugene L. Fleeman has 50+ years of government,
industry, academia, and consulting
experience in Missile Design and System
Engineering. Formerly a manager of missile
programs at Air Force Research Laboratory,
Rockwell International, Boeing, and Georgia
Tech, he is an international lecturer on
missiles and the author of over 100
publications, including the AIAA textbook,
Missile Design and System Engineering.
Summary
This four-day short course covers the fundamentals of missile
design, development, and system engineering. Missiles provide the
essential accuracy and standoff range capabilities that are of
paramount importance in modern warfare. Technologies for
missiles are rapidly emerging, resulting in the frequent introduction
of new missile systems. The capability to meet the essential
requirements for the performance, cost, and risk of missile systems
is driven by missile design and system engineering. The course
provides a system-level, integrated method for missile aerodynamic
configuration/propulsion design and analysis. It addresses the
broad range of alternatives in meeting cost, performance, and risk
requirements. The methods presented are generally simple closed-
form analytical expressions that are physics-based, to provide
insight into the primary driving parameters. Typical values of missile
parameters and the characteristics of current operational missiles
are discussed as well as the enabling subsystems and
technologies for missiles and the current/projected state-of-the-art.
Daily roundtable discussion. Design, build, and fly competition.
Over seventy videos illustrate missile development activities and
missile performance. Attendees will vote on the relative emphasis
of the material to be presented. Attendees receive course notes as
well as the textbook, Missile Design and System Engineering.
Course Outline
1. Introduction/Key Drivers in the Missile System Design
Process: Overview of missile design process. Examples of system-of-
systems integration. Unique characteristics of missiles. Key
aerodynamic configuration sizing parameters. Missile conceptual
design synthesis process. Examples of processes to establish mission
requirements. Projected capability in command, control,
communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance
(C4ISR). Example of Pareto analysis. Attendees vote on course
emphasis.
2. Aerodynamic Considerations in Missile System Design:
Optimizing missile aerodynamics. Shapes for low observables. Missile
configuration layout (body, wing, tail) options. Selecting flight control
alternatives. Wing and tail sizing. Predicting normal force, drag,
pitching moment, stability, control effectiveness, lift-to-drag ratio, and
hinge moment. Maneuver law alternatives.
3. Propulsion Considerations in Missile System Design:
Turbojet, ramjet, scramjet, ducted rocket, and rocket propulsion
comparisons. Turbojet engine design considerations, prediction and
sizing. Selecting ramjet engine, booster, and inlet alternatives. Ramjet
performance prediction and sizing. High density fuels. Solid propellant
alternatives. Propellant grain cross section trade-offs. Effective thrust
magnitude control. Reducing propellant observables. Propellant aging
prediction. Rocket motor performance prediction and sizing. Solid
propellant rocket motor combustion instability. Motor case and nozzle
materials.
4. Weight Considerations in Missile System Design: How to
size subsystems to meet flight performance requirements. Structural
design criteria factor of safety. Structure concepts and manufacturing
processes. Selecting airframe materials. Loads prediction. Weight
prediction. Airframe and motor case design. Aerodynamic heating
prediction and insulation trades. Thermalstress. Dome material
alternatives and sizing. Power supply and actuator alternatives and
sizing.
5. Flight Performance Considerations in Missile System
Design: Flight envelope limitations. Aerodynamic sizing-equations of
motion. Accuracy of simplified equations of motion. Maximizing flight
performance. Benefits of flight trajectory shaping. Flight performance
prediction of boost, climb, cruise, coast, steady descent, ballistic,
maneuvering, divert, and homing flight.
6. Measures of Merit and Launch Platform Integration:
Achieving robustness in adverse weather. Seeker, navigation, data
link, and sensor alternatives. Seeker range prediction. GPS / INS
integration. Electromagnetic compatibility. Counter-countermeasures.
Warhead alternatives and lethality prediction. Approaches to minimize
collateral damage. Fuzing alternatives and requirements for fuze angle
and time delay. Alternative guidance laws. Proportional guidance
accuracy prediction. Time constant contributors and prediction.
Maneuverability design criteria. Radar cross section and infrared
signature prediction. Survivability considerations. Insensitive
munitions. Enhanced reliability. Cost drivers of schedule, weight,
learning curve, and parts count. EMD and production cost prediction.
Logistics considerations. Designing within launch platform constraints.
Standard launchers. Internal vs. external carriage. Shipping, storage,
carriage, launch, and separation environment considerations. Launch
platformand fire control system interfaces. Cold and solar environment
temperature prediction.
7. Sizing Examples and Sizing Tools: Trade-offs for extended
range rocket. Sizing for enhanced maneuverability. Developing a
harmonized missile. Lofted range prediction. Ramjet missile sizing for
range robustness. Ramjet fuel alternatives. Ramjet velocity control.
Correction of turbojet thrust and specific impulse. Turbojet missile
sizing for maximum range. Turbojet engine rotational speed. Guided
bomb performance. Computer aided sizing tools for conceptual design.
Design, build, and fly competition. Pareto, house of quality, and design
of experiment analysis.
8. Missile Development Process: Design validation/technology
development process. Developing a technology roadmap. History of
transformational technologies. Funding emphasis. Cost, risk, and
performance tradeoffs. New missile follow-on projections. Examples of
development tests and facilities. Example of technology demonstration
flight envelope. Examples of technology development. New
technologies for missiles.
Orlando, Florida
$2195 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
www.aticourses.com/tactical_missile_design.htm
Video!
Missile System Design
Course # D190

March 8-11, 2016
Columbia, Maryland
$1990 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
Instructor
Dr. Walter R. Dyer is a graduate of UCLA, with a Ph.D.
degree in Control Systems Engineering and
Applied Mathematics. He has over thirty years
of industry, government and academic
experience in the analysis and design of
tactical and strategic missiles. His experience
includes Standard Missile, Stinger, AMRAAM,
HARM, MX, Small ICBM, and ballistic missile
defense. He is currently a Senior Staff
Member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory and was formerly the Chief Technologist at the
Missile Defense Agency in Washington, DC. He has authored
numerous industry and government reports and published
prominent papers on missile technology. He has also taught
university courses in engineering at both the graduate and
undergraduate levels.
What You Will Learn
You will gain an understanding of the design and analysis
of homing missiles and the integrated performance of their
subsystems.
• Missile propulsion and control in the atmosphere and in
space.
• Clear explanation of homing guidance.
• Types of missile seekers and how they work.
• Missile testing and simulation.
• Latest developments and future trends.
Summary
This four-day course presents a broad introduction to
major missile subsystems and their integrated performance,
explained in practical terms, but including relevant analytical
methods. While emphasis is on today’s homing missiles and
future trends, the course includes a historical perspective of
relevant older missiles. Both endoatmospheric and
exoatmospheric missiles (missiles that operate in the
atmosphere and in space) are addressed. Missile propulsion,
guidance, control, and seekers are covered, and their roles
and interactions in integrated missile operation are explained.
The types and applications of missile simulation and testing
are presented. Comparisons of autopilot designs, guidance
approaches, seeker alternatives, and instrumentation for
various purposes are presented. The course is recommended
for analysts, engineers, and technical managers who want to
broaden their understanding of modern missiles and missile
systems. The analytical descriptions require some technical
background, but practical explanations can be appreciated by
all students. U.S. citizenship is required for this course.
Course Outline
1. Introduction. Brief history of Missiles. Types of
missiles. Introduction to ballistic missile defense.
Endoatmospheric and exoatmospheric missiles. Missile
basing. Missile subsystems overview. Warheads, lethality and
hit-to-kill. Power and power conditioning.
2. Missile Propulsion. Rocket thrust and the rocket
equation. Specific impulse and mass fraction. Solid and liquid
propulsion. Propellant safety. Single stage and multistage
boosters. Ramjets and scramjets. Axial propulsion. Thrust
vector control. Divert and attitude control systems. Effects of
gravity and atmospheric drag.
3. Missile Airframes, Autopilots And Control. Purpose
and functions of autopilots. Dynamics of missile motion and
simplifying assumptions. Single plane analysis. Missile
aerodynamics. Autopilot design. Open-loop and closed loop
autopilots. Inertial instruments and feedback. Pitch and roll
autopilot examples. Autopilot response, stability, and agility.
Body modes and rate saturation. Induced roll in high
performance missiles. Adaptive autopilots. Rolling airframe
Missiles. Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle autopilots. Pulse Width
Modulation. Limit cycles.
4. Missile Seekers. Seeker types and operation for endo-
and exo-atmospheric missiles. Passive, active and semi
active seekers. Atmospheric transmission. Strapped down
and gimbaled seekers. Radar basics. Radar seekers and
missile fire-control radar. Radar antennas. Sequential lobing,
monopulse and frequency agility. Passive sensing basics and
infrared seekers. Figures of merit for detectors. Introduction to
seeker optics and passive seeker configurations. Scanning
seekers and focal plane arrays. Dual mode seekers. Seeker
comparisons and applications to different missions. Signal
processing and noise reduction.
5. Missile Guidance. Phases of missile flight. Boost and
midcourse guidance. Lambert Guidance. Homing guidance.
Zero effort miss. Proportional navigation and augmented
proportional navigation. Predictive guidance. Optimum
homing guidance. Homing guidance examples and simulation
results. Gravity bias. Radomes and their effects. Blind range.
Endoatmospheric and exoatmospheric missile guidance.
Sources of miss and miss reduction. Miss distance
comparisons with different homing guidance laws. Guidance
filters and the Kalman filter. Early guidance techniques. Beam
rider, pure pursuit, and deviated pursuit guidance.
6. Simulation and Testing. Current simulation
capabilities and future trends. Hardware in the loop. Types of
missile testing and their uses, advantages and disadvantages
of testing alternatives.
Modern Missile Analysis
Propulsion, Guidance, Control, Seekers, and Technology Course # D193
www.aticourses.com/missile_systems_analysis.htm
Video!

Instructor
Stan Silberman is a member of the Senior
Technical Staff at the Johns Hopkins Univeristy
Applied Physics Laboratory. He has over 30
years of experience in tracking, sensor fusion,
and radar systems analysis and design for the
Navy,Marine Corps, Air Force, and FAA.
Recent work has included the integration of a
new radar into an existing multisensor system
and in the integration, using a multiple
hypothesis approach, of shipboard radar and
ESM sensors. Previous experience has
included analysis and design of multiradar
fusion systems, integration of shipboard
sensors including radar, IR and ESM,
integration of radar, IFF, and time-difference-of-
arrival sensors with GPS data sources.
Summary
The objective of this three-day course is to
introduce engineers, scientists, managers and
military operations personnel to the fields of
target tracking and data fusion, and to the key
technologies which are available today for
application to this field. The course is designed
to be rigorous where appropriate, while
remaining accessible to students without a
specific scientific background in this field. The
course will start from the fundamentals and
move to more advanced concepts. This course
will identify and characterize the principle
components of typical tracking systems. A
variety of techniques for addressing different
aspects of the data fusion problem will be
described. Real world examples will be used to
emphasize the applicability of some of the
algorithms. Specific illustrative examples will
be used to show the tradeoffs and systems
issues between the application of different
techniques.
What You Will Learn
• State Estimation Techniques – Kalman Filter,
constant-gain filters.
• Non-linear filtering – When is it needed? Extended
Kalman Filter.
• Techniques for angle-only tracking.
• Tracking algorithms, their advantages and
limitations, including:
- Nearest Neighbor
- Probabilistic Data Association
- Multiple Hypothesis Tracking
- Interactive Multiple Model (IMM)
• How to handle maneuvering targets.
• Track initiation – recursive and batch approaches.
• Architectures for sensor fusion.
• Sensor alignment – Why do we need it and how do
we do it?
• Attribute Fusion, including Bayesian methods,
Dempster-Shafer, Fuzzy Logic.
June 14-16, 2016
Columbia, Maryland
$1790 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
Course Outline
1. Introduction.
2. The Kalman Filter.
3. Other Linear Filters.
4. Non-Linear Filters.
5. Angle-Only Tracking.
6. Maneuvering Targets: Adaptive Techniques.
7. Maneuvering Targets: Multiple Model
Approaches.
8. Single Target Correlation & Association.
9. Track Initiation, Confirmation & Deletion.
10. Using Measured Range Rate (Doppler).
11. Multitarget Correlation & Association.
12. Probabilistic Data Association.
13. Multiple Hypothesis Approaches.
14. Coordinate Conversions.
15. Multiple Sensors.
16. Data Fusion Architectures.
17. Fusion of Data From Multiple Radars.
18. Fusion of Data From Multiple Angle-Only
Sensors.
19. Fusion of Data From Radar and Angle-Only
Sensor.
20. Sensor Alignment.
21. Fusion of Target Type and Attribute Data.
22. Performance Metrics.
Revised With
Newly Added
Topics
Multi-Target Tracking and Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
Course # D210

What You Will Learn
Scientific and engineering principles behind systems
such as radar, sonar, electro-optics, guidance systems,
explosives and ballistics. Specifically:
• Analyze weapon systems in their environment, examining
elements of the “detect to engage sequence” from sensing
to target damage mechanisms.
• Apply the concept of energy propagation and interaction
from source to distant objects via various media for detection
or destruction.
• Evaluate the factors that affect a weapon system’s sensor
resolution and signal-to-noise ratio. Including the
characteristics of a multiple element system and/or array.
• Knowledge to make reasonable assumptions and formulate
first-order approximations of weapons systems’
performance.
• Asses the design and operational tradeoffs on weapon
systems’ performance from a high level.
From this course you will obtain the knowledge and
ability to perform basic sensor and weapon calculations,
identify tradeoffs, interact meaningfully with colleagues,
evaluate systems, and understand the literature.
Instructors
Craig Payne is currently a principal investigator at the Johns
Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. His expertise in the
“detect to engage” process with emphasis in sensor systems,
(sonar, radar and electro-optics), development of fire control
solutions for systems, guidance methods, fuzing techniques,
and weapon effects on targets. He is a retired U.S. Naval
Officer from the Surface Warfare community and has
extensive experience naval operations. As a Master Instructor
at the U. S. Naval Academy he designed, taught and literally
wrote the book for the course called Principles of Naval
Weapons. This course is provided to all U.S. Naval Academy
Midshipmen, 62 colleges and Universities that offer the
NROTC program and taught abroad at various national
service schools.
Dr. Menachem Levitas has 44 years of experience in direct
radar and weapon systems analysis, design,
and development. Throughout his tenure he
has provided technical support for shipboard
and airborne radar programs in many
different areas including system concept
definition, electronic protection, active arrays,
signal and data processing, requirement
analyses, and radar phenomenology. He is a
recipient of the AEGIS Excellence Award. He has supported
many radar programs including the Air Force’s Ultra Reliable
Radar (URR), the Atmospheric Surveillance Technology
(AST), the USMC’s Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar
(G/ATOR), the 3D Long Range Expeditionary Radar
(3DLRR), and others. He was the chief scientist of Technology
Service Corporation’s Washington Operations.
Summary
This four-day course is designed for students who have a
college level knowledge of mathematics and basic physics to
gain the “big picture” as related to basic sensor and weapons
theory. As in all disciplines knowing the vocabulary is
fundamental for further exploration, this course strives to
provide the physical explanation behind the vocabulary such
that students have a working vernacular of naval weapons.
This course is a fundamental course and is not designed for
experts in the Navy's combat systems.
Course Outline
1. Introduction to Combat Systems: Discussion of combat
system attributes
2. Introduction to Radar: Fundamentals, examples, sub-systems
and issues
3. The Physics of Radar: Electromagnetic radiations, frequency,
transmission and reception, waveforms, PRF, minimum range, range
resolution and bandwidth, scattering, target cross-section,
reflectivities, scattering statistics, polarimetric scattering, propagation
in the Earth troposphere
4. Radar Theory: The radar range equation, signal and noise,
detection threshold, noise in receiving systems, detection principles,
measurement accuracies
5. The Radar Sub-systems: Transmitter, antenna, receiver and
signal processor (Pulse Compression and Doppler filtering principles,
automatic detection with adaptive detection threshold, the CFAR
mechanism, sidelobe blanking angle estimation), the radar control
program and data processor (SAR/ISAR are addressed as antenna
excursions)
6. Workshop: Hands-on exercises relative to Antenna basics; and
radar range analysis with and without detailed losses and the pattern
propagation factor
7. Electronic Attack and Electronic Protection: Noise and
deceptive jamming, and radar protection techniques
8. Electronically Scanned Antennas: Fundamental concepts,
directivity and gain, elements and arrays, near and far field radiation,
element factor and array factor, illumination function and Fourier
transform relations, beamwidth approximations, array tapers and
sidelobes, electrical dimension and errors, array bandwidth, steering
mechanisms, grating lobes, phase monopulse, beam broadening,
examples
9. Solid State Active Phased Arrays: What are solid state active
arrays (SSAA), what advantages do they provide, emerging
requirements that call for SSAA (or AESA), SSAA issues at T/R
module, array, and system levels
10. Radar Tracking: Functional block diagram, what is radar
tracking, firm track initiation and range, track update, track
maintenance, algorithmic alternatives (association via single or
multiple hypotheses, tracking filters options), role of electronically
steered arrays in radar tracking
11. Current Challenges and Advancements: Key radar
challenges, key advances (transmitter, antenna, signal stability,
digitization and digital processing, waveforms, algorithms)
12. Electro-optical theory. Radiometric Quantities, Stephan
Botzman Law, Wein's Law.
13. Electro-Optical Targets, Background and Attenuation.
Lasers, Selective Radiation, Thermal Radiation Spreading,
Divergence, Absorption Bands, Beers Law, Night Vision Devices.
14. Infrared Range Equation. Detector Response and Sensitivity,
Derivation of Simplified IR Range Equation, Example problems.
15. Sound Propagation in Oceans. Thermal Structure of Ocean,
Sound Velocity Profiles, Propagation Paths, Transmission Losses.
16. SONAR Figure of Merit. Target Strength, Noise,
Reverberation, Scattering, Detection Threshold, Directivity Index,
Passive and Active Sonar Equations.
17. Underwater Detection Systems. Transducers and
Hydrophones, Arrays, Variable Depth Sonar, Sonobuoys, Bistatic
Sonar, Non-Acoustic Detection Systems to include Magnetic Anomaly
Detection.
18. Weapon Ballistics and Propulsion. Relative Motion, Interior
and Exterior Ballistics, Reference Frames and Coordinate Systems,
Weapons Systems Alignment.
19. Guidance: Guidance laws and logic to include pursuit, constant
bearing, proportion navigation and kappa-gamma. Seeker design.
20. Fuzing Principles. Fuze System Classifications, Proximity
Fuzes, Non-proximity Fuzes.
21. Chemical Explosives. Characteristics of Military Explosives,
Measurement of Chemical Explosive Reactions, Power Index
Approximation.
22. Warhead Damage Predictions. Quantifying Damage, Circular
Error Probable, Blast Warheads, Diffraction and Drag loading on
targets, Fragmentation Warheads, Shaped Charges, Special Purpose
Warheads.
23. Underwater Warheads. Underwater Explosion Damage
Mechanisms, Torpedoes, Naval Mine Classification.
May 9-12, 2016
Columbia, Maryland
$2045 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
Naval Weapons Principles
Underlying Physics of Today’s Sensor and Weapons Course # D211

RADAR 201
Advances in Modern Radar
March 16, 2016
Laurel, Maryland
$700 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
RADAR 101
Fundamentals of Radar
March 15, 2016
Laurel, Maryland
$700 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
Summary
This concise one-day course is intended for those with
only modest or no radar experience. It provides an
overview with understanding of the physics behind radar,
tools used in describing radar, the technology of radar at
the subsystem level and concludes with a brief survey of
recent accomplish-ments in various applications.
ATTEND EITHER OR BOTH RADAR COURSES! Summary
This one-day course is a supplement to the basic
course Radar 101, and probes deliberately deeper into
selected topics, notably in signal processing to achieve
(generally) finer and finer resolution (in several
dimensions, imaging included) and in antennas wherein
the versatility of the phased array has made such an
impact. Finally, advances in radar's own data processing
- auto-detection, more refined association processes,
and improved auto-tracking - and system wide fusion
processes are briefly discussed.
Course Outline
1. Introduction. The general nature of radar: composition,
block diagrams, photos, types and functions of radar, typical
characteristics.
2. The Physics of Radar. Electromagnetic waves and
their vector representation. The spectrum bands used in
radar. Radar waveforms. Scattering. Target and clutter
behavior representations. Propagation: refractivity,
attenuation, and the effects of the Earth surface.
3. The Radar Range Equation. Development from basic
principles. The concepts of peak and average power, signal
and noise bandwidth and the matched filter concept, antenna
aperture and gain, system noise temperature, and signal
detectability.
4. Thermal Noise and Detection in Thermal Noise.
Formation of thermal noise in a receiver. System noise
temperature (Ts) and noise figure (NF). The role of a low-
noise amplifier (LNA). Signal and noise statistics. False alarm
probability. Detection thresholds. Detection probability.
Coherent and non-coherent multi-pulse integration.
5. The sub-systems of Radar. Transmitter (pulse
oscillator vs. MOPA, tube vs. solid state, bottled vs. distributed
architecture), antenna (pattern, gain, sidelobes, bandwidth),
receiver (homodyne vs. super heterodyne), signal processor
(functions, front and back-end), and system controller/tracker.
Types, issues, architectures, tradeoff considerations.
5. Current Accomplishments and Concluding
Discussion.
Course Outline
1. Introduction. Radar’s development, the metamorphosis of
the last few decades: analog and digital technology evolution,
theory and algorithms, increased digitization: multi-functionality,
adaptivity to the environment, higher detection sensitivity, higher
resolution, increased performance in clutter.
2. Modern Signal Processing. Clutter and the Doppler
principle. MTI and Pulse Doppler filtering. Adaptive cancellation
and STAP. Pulse editing. Pulse Compression processing.
Adaptive thresholding and detection. Ambiguity resolution.
Measurement and reporting.
3. Electronic Steering Arrays (ESA): Principles of
Operation. Advantages and cost elements. Behavior with scan
angle. Phase shifters, true time delays (TTL) and array bandwidth.
Other issues.
4. Solid State Active Array (SSAA) Antennas (AESA).
Architecture. Technology. Motivation. Advantages. Increased
array digitization and compatibility with adaptive pattern
applications. Need for in-place auto-calibration and
compensation.
5. Modern Advances in Waveforms. Pulse compression
principles. Performance measures. Some legacy codes. State-of-
the-art optimal codes. Spectral compliance. Temporal controls.
Orthogonal codes. Multiple-input Multiple-output (MIMO) radar.
6. Data Processing Functions. The conventional functions of
report to track correlation, track initiation, update, and
maintenance. The new added responsibilities of managing a
multi-function array: prioritization, timing, resource management.
The Multiple Hypothesis tracker.
7. Concluding Discussion. Today’s concern of mission and
theatre uncertainties. Increasing requirements at constrained
size, weight, and cost. Needs for growth potential. System of
systems with data fusion and multiple communication links.
Dr. Menchem Levitas has forty four years of experience in
science and engineering, thirty six of which
have consisted of direct radar and weapon
systems analysis, design, and development.
Throughout his tenure he has provided
technical support for many shipboard and
airborne radar programs in many different
areas including system concept definition,
electronic protection, active arrays, signal and data processing,
requirement analyses, and radar phenomenology. He is a
recipient of the AEGIS Excellence Award for the development
of a novel radar cross-band calibration technique in support of
wide-band operations for high range resolution. He has
developed innovative techniques in many areas e.g., active
array self-calibration and failure-compensation, array multi-
beam-forming, electronic protection, synthetic wide-band,
knowledge-based adaptive processing, waveforms and
waveform processing, and high fidelity, real-time, littoral
propagation modeling. He has supported many AESA
programs including the Air Force’s Ultra Reliable Radar (URR),
the Atmospheric Surveillance Technology (AST), the USMC’s
Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR), the 3D Long
Range Expeditionary Radar (3DLRR), and others. Prior to his
retirement in 2013 he had been the chief scientist of
Technology Service Corporation’s Washington Operations.
Radar 101 / 201
Course # D222 - D223

What You Will Learn
• What are radar subsystems.
• How to calculate radar performance.
• Key functions, issues, and requirements.
• How different requirements make radars different.
• Operating in different modes & environments.
• ESA and AESA radars: what are these technologies, how they work,
what drives them, and what new issues they bring.
• Issues unique to multifunction, phased array, radars.
• State-of-the-art waveforms and waveform processing.
• How airborne radars differ from surface radars.
• Today's requirements, technologies & designs.
Instructors
Dr. Menachem Levitas has 44 years of experience in radar
and weapon systems analysis, design, and
development. Throughout his tenure he has
provided technical support for shipboard and
airborne radar programs in many different areas
including system concept definition, electronic
protection, active arrays, signal and data
processing, requirement analyses, and radar
phenomenology. He is a recipient of the AEGIS
Excellence Award. He has supported many
radar programs including the Air Force’s Ultra Reliable Radar
(URR), the Atmospheric Surveillance Technology (AST), the
USMC’s Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR), the 3D Long
Range Expeditionary Radar (3DLRR), and others. He was the
chief scientist of Technology Service Corporation’s Washington
Operations.
Stan Silberman is a member of the Senior Technical Staff of
the Applied Physics Laboratory. He has over 30 years of
experience in tracking, sensor fusion, and radar systems analysis
and design for the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and FAA.
Recent work has included the integration of a new radar into an
existing multisensor system and in the integration, using a multiple
hypothesis approach, of shipboard radar and ESM sensors.
Previous experience has included analysis and design of
multiradar fusion systems, integration of shipboard sensors
including radar, IR and ESM, integration of radar, IFF, and time-
difference-of-arrival sensors with GPS data sources, and
integration of multiple sonar systems on underwater platforms.
Summary
This four-day course covers radar functionality,
architecture, and performance. Fundamental radar issues
such as transmitter stability, antenna pattern, clutter, jamming,
propagation, target cross section, dynamic range, receiver
noise, receiver architecture, waveforms, processing, and
target detection are treated in detail within the unifying context
of the radar range equation, and examined within the contexts
of surface and airborne radar platforms and their respective
applications. Advanced topics such as pulse compression,
electronically steered arrays, and active phased arrays are
covered, together with the related issues of failure
compensation and auto-calibration. The fundamentals of
multi-target tracking principles are covered, and detailed
examples of surface and airborne radars are presented. This
course is designed for engineers and engineering managers
who wish to understand how surface and airborne radar
systems work, and to familiarize themselves with pertinent
design issues and the current technological frontiers.
Course Outline
1. Introduction. Radar systems examples. Radar ranging
principles, frequencies, architecture, measurements, displays,
and parameters. Radar range equation; radar waveforms;
antenna patterns, types, and parameters.
2. Noise in Receiving Systems and Detection Principles.
Noise sources; statistical properties. Radar range equation; false
alarm and detection probability; and pulse integration schemes.
Radar cross section; stealth; fluctuating targets; stochastic
models; detection of fluctuating targets.
3. CW Radar, Doppler, and Receiver Architecture. Basic
properties; CW and high PRF relationships; dynamic range,
stability; isolation requirements, techniques, and devices;
superheterodyne receivers; in-phase and quadrature receivers;
signal spectrum; spectral broadening; matched filtering; Doppler
filtering; Spectral modulation; CW ranging; and measurement
accuracy.
4. Radio Waves Propagation. The pattern propagation
factor; interference (multipath,) and diffraction; refraction;
standard refractivity; the 4/3 Earth approximation; sub-
refractivity; super refractivity; trapping; propagation ducts; littoral
propagation; propagation modeling; attenuation.
5. Radar Clutter and Detection in Clutter. Volume,
surface, and discrete clutter, deleterious clutter effects on radar
performance, clutter characteristics, effects of platform velocity,
distributed sea clutter and sea spikes, terrain clutter, grazing
angle vs. depression angle characterization, volume clutter,
birds, Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) thresholding, editing
CFAR, and Clutter Maps.
6. Clutter Filtering Principles. Signal-to-clutter ratio; signal
and clutter separation techniques; range and Doppler
techniques; principles of filtering; transmitter stability and
filtering; pulse Doppler and MTI; MTD; blind speeds and blind
ranges; staggered MTI; analog and digital filtering; notch
shaping; gains and losses. Performance measures: clutter
attenuation, improvement factor, subclutter visibility, and
cancellation ratio. Improvement factor limitation sources; stability
noise sources; composite errors; types of MTI.
7. Radar Waveforms. The time-bandwidth concept. Pulse
compression; Performance measures; Code families; Matched
and mismatched filters. Optimal codes and code families:
multiple constraints. Performance in the time and frequency
domains; Mismatched filters and their applications; Orthogonal
and quasi-orthogonal codes; Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output
(MIMO) radar; MIMO waveforms and MIMO antenna patterns.
8. Electronically Scanned Radar Systems. Fundamental
concepts, directivity and gain, elements and arrays, near and far
field radiation, element factor and array factor, illumination
function and Fourier transform relations, beamwidth
approximations, array tapers and sidelobes, electrical dimension
and errors, array bandwidth, steering mechanisms, grating lobes,
phase monopulse, beam broadening, examples.
9. Active Phased Array Radar Systems. What are solid
state active arrays (SSAA), what advantages do they provide,
emerging requirements that call for SSAA (or AESA), SSAA
issues at T/R module, array, and system levels, digital arrays,
future direction.
10. Multiple Simultaneous Beams. Why multiple beams,
independently steered beams vs. clustered beams, alternative
organization of clustered beams and their implications,
quantization lobes in clustered beams arrangements and design
options to mitigate them.
11. Auto-Calibration Techniques in Active Phased Array
Radars: Motivation; the mutual coupling in a phased array radar;
external calibration reference approach; the mutual coupling
approach; architectural.
12. Module Failure and Array Auto-compensation: The
‘bathtub’ profile of module failure rates and its three regions,
burn-in and accelerated stress tests, module packaging and
periodic replacements, cooling alternatives, effects of module
failure on array pattern, array auto-compensation techniques to
extend time between replacements, need for recalibration after
module replacement.
January 25-28, 2016 • Columbia, Maryland
$1990 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
Radar Systems Design & Engineering
Radar Performance Calculations Course # D231

What You Will Learn
• How radars measure target range, bearing and
velocity.
• How the radar range equation is used to estimate
radar system performance including received power,
target SNR and maximum detection range.
• System design and external factors driving radar
system performance including transmitter power,
antenna gain, pulse duration, system bandwidth,
target RCS, and RF propagation.
Instructor
Dr. Jack Lum is currently a Radar and
Electronics Warfare engineer at the
Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory. During his 10
years at JHU/APL, he has led and
authored performance analyses of
multiple Navy radar systems
including the AN/APS-147, AN/APS-153 and the
AN/SPS-74. Prior to JHU/APL, he worked at the
Raytheon Corporation on ballistic missile
defense. He holds a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical
Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering.
He has over 12 years of radar systems
engineering experience that includes expertise in
system performance modeling, signal
processing, test & evaluation, and target RCS
modeling; 10 years experience prototyping and
integrating high-speed radar and EW processing
and recording systems; and 5 years of Electronic
Warfare (EW) application development.
Course Outline
1. Radar Measurements. Target ranging,
target bearing, target size estimation, radar range
resolution, range rate, Doppler velocity, and radar
line-of-sight horizon.
2. Radar Range Equation. Description of
factors affecting radar detection performance;
system design choices such transmit power,
antenna, signal frequency, and system
bandwidth; external factors including target
reflectivity, clutter, atmospheric attenuation and
RF signal propagation; use of radar range
equation for estimating receive power, target
signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and maximum
detection range.
3. Target and Clutter Reflectivity. Target
radar cross section (RCS), Swerling model for
fluctuating targets, volume and surface clutter,
and ground and ocean clutter models.
4. Propagation of RF Signals. Free space
propagation, atmospheric attenuation, ducting,
and significance of RF transmit frequency.
5. Radar Transmitter / Antenna / Receiver.
Antenna concepts, phased array antennas, radar
signal generation, RF signal heterodyning
(upconversion and downconversion), signal
amplification, RF receiver components, dynamic
range, and system (cascade) noise figure.
6. Radar Detection. Probability Density
Functions (PDFs), Target and Noise PDFs,
Probability of Detection, False Alarm Rate (FAR),
constant FAR (CFAR) threshold, receiver
operating characteristic (ROC) curves.
7. Radar Tracking. Range and angle
measurement errors, tracking, Alpha-Beta
trackers, Kalman Filters, and track formation and
gating.
Columbia, Maryland
$1790 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
Radar Systems Fundamentals
An Introduction to Radar Physics, System Design and Signal Processing Course # D226
Summary
This 3-day course introduces the student to the
fundamentals of radar systems engineering. The
course begins by describing how radar sensors
perform critical measurements and the limitation
of those measurements. The radar range
equation in its many forms is derived, and
examples of its applications to different situations
are demonstrated. The generation and reception
of radar signals is explained through a holistic
rather than piecemeal discussion of the radar
transmitter, antenna, receiver and signal
processing. The course wraps up with a
explanation of radar detection and tracking of
targets in noise and clutter.
The course is valuable to engineers and
scientists who are entering the field or as a
review for employees who want a system level
overview. A comprehensive set of notes and
references will be provided to all attendees.
Students will also receive Matlab scripts that they
can use to perform radar system performance
assessments.

What You Will Learn
• How to model flight dynamics with tensors.
• How to formulate the kinematics and
dynamics of 6 DoF aerospace vehicles.
• Functional integration of aircraft and
missile subsystems: Aerodynamics,
propulsion, actuators, autopilots,
guidance, seekers and navigation.
• See in action aircraft and missile 6DoF
simulations.
• How to build your own 6 DoF simulations.
Instructor
Dr. Peter Zipfel is a graduate of the
University Stuttgart, Germany,
and the Catholic University of
America with a Ph.D. in
aerospace engineering. He
founded Modeling and Simulation
Technologies, which advises and
instructs functional integration of aerospace
systems using computer simulations. For 35
years he taught courses in modeling and
simulation, guidance and control, and flight
dynamics at the University of Florida and
over the span of 45 years he created
aerospace simulations for the German
Helicopter Institute, the U.S. Army, and U.S.
Air Force. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow
and an internationally recognized short
course instructor.
Summary
This is a two-day course. As modeling and
simulation (M&S) is penetrating the
aerospace sciences at all levels, this course
will introduce you to the difficult subject of
modeling aerospace vehicles in six degrees
of freedom (6 DoF). Starting with the modern
approach of tensors, the equations of motion
are derived and, after introducing coordinate
systems, they are expressed in matrices for
compact computer programming. Aircraft
and missile prototypes will exemplify 6 DoF
aerodynamic modeling, rocket and turbojet
propulsion, actuating systems, autopilots,
guidance, and seekers. These subsystems
will be integrated step by step into full-up
simulations. For demonstrations, typical fly-
out trajectories will be run and projected on
the screen. The provided source code and
plotting programs let you duplicate the
trajectories on your PC (requires MS Visual
C++ compiler, free Express version). Based
on these prototype simulations you can build
your own 6 DoF aerospace simulations.
Course Outline
1. Concepts in Modeling with Tensors.
Definitions, the M&S pyramid .
2. Matrices, Vectors, and Tensors.
invariant modeling with tensors. Definition of
frames and coordinate systems.
3. Coordinate Systems. Heliocentric,
inertial, geographic coordinate systems.
Body, wind, flight path coordinate systems.
4. Kinematics of Flight Mechanics.
Rotational time derivative. Euler
transformation.
5. Equations of Motion of Aircraft and
Missiles. Newton’s translational equations.
Euler’s attitude equations .
6. Aerodynamics of Aircraft and
Missiles. Aircraft aerodynamics in body
coordinates. Missile aerodynamics in
aeroballistic coordinates.
7. Propulsion. Rocket, turbojet and
combined cycle propulsion.
8. Autopilots for Aircraft and Missiles.
Roll and heading autopilots. Attitude
autopilots. Acceleration autopilots.
9. Seekers for Missiles. Radar and IR
sensors.
10. Guidance and Navigation. Line
guidance, proportional navigation. Optimal
guidance laws .
Full-up Aircraft Simulation in C++
and Full-up Missile Simulation in C++)
February 9-10, 2016
Columbia, Maryland
July 12-13, 2016
Orlando. Florida
$1290 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Six Degrees of Freedom Modeling
Modeling & Simulations of Missile & Aircraft Course # D240
NEW!

Instructor
Dr. Mark Plett has 15 years experience
developing Communications Systems. He has
worked at several telecommunications start-ups
as well as the DoD, and Microsoft. Most recently,
Dr. Plett works at the Johns Hopkins Applied
Physics Lab (APL) directing the Wireless Cyber
Capabilities Group. Dr. Plett has spent the last 7
years developing software-defined radios for a
variety of DoD applications. He is active in the
open source SDR community and has
contributed source code to the GNURadio
project. Dr. Plett received his Masters in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Maryland in
1999 and his Ph.D. in Electro-physics from the
University of Maryland in 2007. Dr. Plett is a
licensed Professional Engineer in the State of
Maryland.
Summary
This three-day course will provide the foundational
skills required to develop software defined radios using
the GNURadio framework. This course consists of both
lecture material and worked SDR software examples.
The course begins with a background in SDR
technologies and communications theory. The course
then covers programming in the Linux environment
common to GNURadio. Introductory GNURadio is
presented to demonstrate the utilization of the stock
framework. Then the class will cover how to develop
and debug custom signal processing blocks in the
context of a work SDR modem. Finally, the advanced
features of GNURadio will be covered such as RPC,
data tagging, and burst (event) processing. This class
will present SDR development best practices
developed through the development of over a dozen
SDR systems. Such practices include approaches to
quality assurance coding, process monitoring, and
proper system segmentation architectures.
Each student will receive a complete set of lecture
notes as well as a complete SDR development
environment preloaded with the worked examples of
GNURadio applications.
What You Will Learn
• What applications utilize SDR.
• Common SDR architectures.
• Basic communications theory (spectrum access,
modulation).
• Basic algorithms utilized in SDR (carrier recovery,
timing recovery).
• Modem structure.
• Linux software development and debugging.
• SDR development in GNURadio Companion.
• Custom signal processing in GNURadio.
• Worked examples of SDR Modems in GNURadio.
• Advanced GNURadio features (stream tags,
message passing, control port).
March 15-17, 2016
Columbia, Maryland
$1790 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
Course Outline
1. Basic Communications Theory. Spectrum analysis.
Media access. Carrier modulation. Bandwidth utilization. Error
correcting codes.
2. Basic Radio Signal Processing. Sampling theory.
Filtering. Carrier recovery. Timing recovery. Equalization.
Modulation and demodulation.
3. Basic Radio Signal Processing. Sampling theory.
Filtering. Carrier recovery. Timing recovery. Equalization.
Modulation and demodulation.
4. The Linux Programming Environment. Introduction to
the Linux operating system. Architecture of the Linux operating
system (Kernel and User spaces) Features of the Linux OS
useful to development such as Package managers, command
line utilities, and BASH. Worked examples of useful commands
and BASH scripting to provide an introduction to software
development in Linux. How software is compiled and executed
with worked examples of static and shared libraries.
5. Software Development in Linux. C++ and Python
software development in Linux. Worked example of building a
C++ program in Linux. Build systems. Debugging using GDB.
Worked examples of debugging with GDB. Profiling tools to
measure SDR software performance. Packaging and revision
control for software distribution. Integrated Development
Environments. Eclipse and LiClipse. Worked examples of
Python scripting. Worked examples of the SWIG C++ to Python
interface generator used in GNURadio.
6. Introduction to GNURadio. GNURadio architecture.
Flowgraphs and data buffers. Stock signal processing blocks.
How to set-up a GNURadio development environment (like the
one provided with the class). Developing with GNURadio
Companion. Worked example in GNURadio Companion.
Developing a GNURadio application in python. Worked
example of a python GNURadio app. Working with SDR
hardware. Worked example with RTL-Dongle.
7. Custom Signal Processing in GNURadio. Worked
example of how to write a GNURadio signal processing block.
Generating block skeleton code. Populating the signal
processing. Compiling and debugging the signal processing.
Communicating with and monitoring the signal processing in
operation.
8. Best Practices in GNURadio Development. Discussion
of techniques for the development of deployable, maintainable
and extensible SDR applications. Architectures to segment
proprietary code from GPL code. Logging and monitoring
techniques. Code libraries and developing for re-use.
9. Advanced GNURadio features. Overview of advanced
GNURadio features. Worked examples of system logging.
Worked examples of message passing and burst processing
with PDUs. Worked examples of metadata passing using
stream tags. Worked example of burst processing using
metadata enabled tagged-streams. Worked example of
external process monitoring using GNURadio control port.
Worked example of hardware accelerated signal processing
using the VOLK optimized kernel library.
10. Open source SDR projects. Discussion and simple
demonstration of available open-source SDR projects.
Scanner utilities such as GQRX, SDR#, and Baudline. SDR
modems projects such as ADS-B, AIS, Airprobe and OpenBTS.
Software Defined Radio – Practical Applications
A beginners guide to Software Defined Radio development with GNURadio Course # D270
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Course Outline
1. Introduction. Background and motivation (both
scientific and political) for the rapid development of radar
and SAR technology.
2. Fundamentals of Radar. The radar range equation,
calculation and meaning of radar cross-section, target
detection, waveform coding, thermal noise and other noise
sources, RF/radar antennas and how they work, radar
system block diagram.
3. Synthetic Aperture Radar Fundamentals.
Description how a SAR works, synthetic aperture imaging,
the difference between synthetic and real-aperture imaging,
example SAR systems and performances. Various SAR
modes will be described including stripmap, spotlight and
various scan modes. Example SAR systems that employ
these modes will be described.
4. SAR Phenomenology. SAR image interpretation,
SAR layover, shadows, multi-path, types of SAR scattering:
surface scattering, forward scattering, volume scattering,
frequency dependency of RCS and other frequency
dependent effects, SAR speckle, noise and noise sources,
ambiguities (range and azimuth), visualization of SAR data.
5. SAR Systems. An overview of various SAR systems
and illustrative imagery examples from those systems is
presented. Both airborne and spaceborne systems are
described along with their performance.
6. SAR Image Exploitation & Applications. Ways to
extract information from SAR data. This section focuses on
what kind of information can be derived from a single SAR
image. Unique capabilities are highlighted as are various
deficiencies. Further examples of exploitation using two
and multiple images are described within the later sections.
7. Design-a-SAR. An interactive software tool will be
used by the class to design a SAR system by setting SAR
parameters such as desired resolution, power, acquisition
geometry (including height and range), frequency,
bandwidth, sampling rates, antenna size/gain, etc. Tool will
enforce consistent SAR design constraints presented in
class. Sensitivity of the resulting SAR data is calculated.
This exercise clearly demonstrates the challenges and
trade-offs involved when designing a SAR system for a
particular mission.
8. SAR Polarimetry. Description of what polarimetry is
in general, and how it can be used in the case of SAR.
Examples of polarimetric SAR systems are described and
example applications are presented. Single-polarization,
dual-polarization and quad-polarization SAR is addressed.
Compact polarization is also discussed in the context of
SAR.
9. Coherent SAR Applications. Two images. SAR
change detection, both coherent and incoherent. SAR
interferometry for elevation mapping, SAR interferometry
for measuring ground motion (differential interferometric
SAR).Along-track interferometry for ocean applications and
GMTI. Case study examples.
10. Coherent SAR Applications. Greater than two
images. Sparse aperture processing for extraction of
elevation data including 3D SAR point clouds, Coherent
processing of stacks of data for estimation of scatterer
motion over time, permanent scatterer (PS) interferometric
techniques. Case study examples.
11. SAR Future. A description of upcoming SAR
missions and systems and their capabilities. Description of
key technologies and new approaches for data acquisition
and processing.
May 17-19, 2016
Pasadena, California
$1890 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Summary
This three-day class will first set the historical
context of SAR by tracing the rapid development of
radar technology from the early part of the twentieth
century through the 1950s when the Synthetic Aperture
Radar techniques were first developed and
demonstrated. A technical description of the important
mathematical relationships to radar and SAR will be
presented. The student will learn what radar cross-
section is and how it applies to traditional radar and
SAR. Fundamental equations governing SAR
performance such as the radar range equation, SAR
resolution equations, and SAR signal-to-noise
equations will be developed and presented. We will
design a simple SAR system in class and derive its
predicted performance and sensitivities. A complete
description of SAR phenomenology will be provided so
that the student will better be able to interpret SAR
imagery. Connections between SAR’s unique image
characteristics and information extraction will be
presented. Perhaps the most important and interesting
material will be presented in the advanced SAR
sections. Here topics such as SAR polarimetry and
interferometry will be presented, along with the latest
applications of these technologies. Many examples will
be presented.
What You Will Learn
• Invention and early development of radar and SAR.
• How a SAR collects data & how it is processed?
• The “beautiful equations” describing SAR resolution.
• What is radar cross-section? What is a SAR’s “noise
equivalent sigma zero?” How do you calculate this?
• Design-a-SAR: Interactive tool that shows predicted
SAR performance based on SAR parameters.
• SAR Polarimetry and applications.
• SAR Interferometry and applications, including
differential SAR and terrain mapping.
Instructor
Mr. Richard Carande, From 1986 to 1995 Mr.
Carande was a group leader for a SAR processor
development group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(Pasadena California). There he was involved in
developing an operational SAR processor for the
JPL/NASA’s three-frequency, fully polarimetric AIRSAR
system. Mr. Carande also worked as a System
Engineer for the Alaska SAR Processor while at JPL,
and performed research in the area of SAR Along-
Track Interferometry. Before starting at JPL, Mr.
Carande was employed by a technology company in
California where he developed optical and digital SAR
processors for internal research applications. Mr.
Carande has a BS & MS in Physics from Case Western
Reserve University.
Synthetic Aperture Radar
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