ECE 410/510

Radar & Sonar Processing

Guidelines for Course Project – due June 13

The objective of the project is to provide an opportunity to investigate one aspect of radar or sonar processing at a deeper level than is covered in the course material and homeworks.

Requirements of the project are:

1)  The project must include the creation of processing code (MATLAB is strongly suggested) that is applied to either actual or simulated data. If you are interested in a particular area but do not have supporting data talk to me – I may be able to obtain (do NOT wait until the proposal due date for this discussion).

2)  The project must include a literature search providing background on the chosen area – what has been done, what are the technical issues, what is the motivation, etc.

3)  The final project should include description of assumptions and details of processing (include all parameters), plots and discussion of results, and description of future work.

4)  A proposal outlining the project is due by April 29th. The proposal should include a description of the project, what the anticipated products are (plots, code, theoretical assessment, etc.).

5)  If you are already engaged in research and/or thesis in radar/sonar, you must choose a different topic for your course project.

Some example projects:

1)  Develop an adaptive beamformer algorithm and quantify performance with SWAP sonar data.

2)  Write a program to emulate the scattering a rough surface and simulate predicted returns for an airborne radar operated above the earth’s surface.

3)  Detection of fish from sonar echograms (data from research program with The Nature Conservancy).

4)  Modeling of acoustic propagation in a shallow water channel using normal mode code from the Ocean Acoustics Library (http://oalib.hlsresearch.com/) for a particular geographic region.

5)  Measurement and modeling of bistatic sonar in a water tank (need to arrange with NEAR-Lab Measurement Facilty).

6)  Processing of the MIT radar data to determine instantaneous target Doppler and target strength (using radar equation).

7)  Model of THz transmission through layered, dispersive media.