Jan. 4               Overview and class procedures

                        Basic concepts and notation

                        What is an imaging radar ?

                        Elementary scattering theory

Jan. 11               Radar equation

                        System design principles

                        Image formation

                        Radar as a signal processing problem

Jan. 18              Range Modulation Processing

                        Range processing and matched filters

                        Pulse compression

                        FFT implementations

Jan. 25              Azimuth processing

                        Synthetic aperture technique

                        System impulse response

                        Azimuth correlator design

Feb. 1              Range migration processing

                        Focussing and autofocus algorithms

                        Doppler tracking and filtering

                        Multilook processing

                        Midterm Examination through Lecture 2/1

Feb. 8               Polarimetry

                        Scattering from vegetation

                        Radiometric calibration

                        Geometric distortion

                        Assignment and Discussion of Final Project

Feb. 15              Interferometry

                        Interferometric radar

                        Interferometric processing implementation

                        Image registration

                        Baseline determination

Feb. 22              Measurement of surface topography

                        Topographic algorithms

                        Application examples

Mar. 1              Velocity measurements

                        Measurement of velocities

                        Ocean current applications

                        Glaciers and ice streams

                        Airborne and spaceborne instrumentation

Mar. 8               Surface deformation measurements

                        Two- and three-pass algorithms

                        Earthquakes and volcanoes

Mar. 15           FINAL PROJECT DUE AT NOON