SV4010 - Surveillance Principles

Objectives

General objective:

The course introduces the surveillance sensors: primary radar, secondary radar monopulse/mode S, ADS-B, multilateration.
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
-describe and explain the surveillance chain architecture for ground and air.
-describe and explain the different sensors involved in the surveillance chain.

Detailed objectives:

After completing this course, the student will be able to:
-describe and explain the surveillance chain architecture for ground and air surveillance
-describe the architecture of surveillance sensors
-explain the working principles of surveillance sensors
-compare those sensors in terms of performance and capacities
-calculate a parameter involved in the link budget equation

Position in the programme

After electromagnetics, antenna, GNSS and Satcom context

Form of assessment

Total assessment hours: 2