• Scattering process and the radar
• Sattering from density fluctuations
• Thomson scattering
• Scattering from a moving electron
• Incoherent scattering
• Generation of high transmitting power
• Radiation pattern of a parabolic antenna
• Antenna gain and effective aperture
• Monostatic and multistatic radar
• Radar equation
• Signal processing
• Radar receiver
• Signal and its Fourier transform
• Signal power
• Autocorrelation function and power spectrum
• Frequency mixing
• Mixing to zero frequency
• Hilbert transform
• Autocorrelation function andpower spectrum of a complex signal
• Linear system
• Transfer function of a boxcar filter. Definition of pass band.
• Bandwidth of an incoherent scatter signal
• Theory of ambiguity functions
• Two-dimensional ambiguity functions
• Examples of two-dimensional ambiguity functions in monostatic case
• Range ambiguity functions
• Lag ambiguity functions
• Spectral ambiguity functions
• Classical modulation methods
• Lag profile matrix
• Data sampling
• Pulse codes
• Gating
• Barker codes
• Barker-coded pulse codes
• Barker decoder
• Long-pulse codes
• Alternating codes
• Working principle of alternating codes
• Properties of alternating codes
• Walsh matrix
• Search of alternating codes
• Efficiency of alternating codes
• Noise and offset