Build a Small Radar System Capable of Sensing Range, Doppler, and Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging
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A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image of Alexander Calder’s sculpture La Grande Voile, generated by one of the student laptop-based radar systems. (Radar system photo and overlaid SAR image courtesy of the students, used with permission. Underlying Google Maps satellite image ⓒ Google and GeoEye, all rights reserved, excluded from our Creative Commons license; for more information, see http://ocw.mit.edu/fairuse.)
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Dr. Gregory L. Charvat
Mr. Jonathan H. Williams
Dr. Alan J. Fenn
Dr. Steve Kogon
Dr. Jeffrey S. Herd

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Are you interested in building and testing your own imaging radar system? MIT Lincoln Laboratory offers this 3-week course in the design, fabrication, and test of a laptop-based radar sensor capable of measuring Doppler, range, and forming synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. You do not have to be a radar engineer but it helps if you are interested in any of the following; electronics, amateur radio, physics, or electromagnetics. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with MATLAB®. Teams of three students will receive a radar kit and will attend a total of 5 sessions spanning topics from the fundamentals of radar to SAR imaging. Experiments will be performed each week as the radar kit is implemented. You will bring your radar kit into the field and perform additional experiments such as measuring the speed of passing cars or plotting the range of moving targets. A final SAR imaging contest will test your ability to form a SAR image of a target scene of your choice from around campus; the most detailed and most creative image 
















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