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2009-2010 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2009-2010 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ECE 527 - Active Remote Sensing of the Environment

3 credits
3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: ECE 336, ECE 384; or permission of instructor
Principles and applications of active remote sensing techniques. Course focuses on microwave and millimeter wave radar techniques. Topics include radar equation, detection theory, scattering from targets and natural surfaces, and imaging systems. The following sensors are covered: synthetic aperture radar (SAR), radar scatterometers, altimeters, polarimetric radars and interferometric radars. Applications include ocean wave and wind measurements, soil moisture measurements, biomass measurements, measurement of land topography, and precipitation studies. Course also includes laboratory computer exercises for analyzing and processing real sensor data.