SV4010E - Surveillance Principles

Objectives

General objective:

The course presents the sensors involved in surveillance : primary radar, secondary radar (MSSR & Mode S), ADS-B, multilateration.
After completing this course, the student will be able to describe and explain the working principles of the sensors mentioned above.

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

Hours

• Lecture : 14h
• Supervised Practical Work : 4h

Form of assessment

Total assessment hours: 2