• Introduction: historical background, radar terminology, radar band designations.
  • The radar equation: point targets, radar cross section, distributed targets, propagation, coverage diagrams
  • Noise, clutter and detection: theory of detection, sea and land clutter models, CFAR processing
  • Doppler radar and MTI: Doppler effect, delay-line cancellers, blind speeds, staggered PRFs, adaptive Doppler filtering.