Course description
The aim of this course is to provide the students with the essential signal analysis and statistical tools used in communications and sensor systems. The main areas covered are analogue and digital signal processing, statistics and the detection of signals in noise.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
The course is intended for military officers and defence industry scientists and technical officers. It is particularly suitable for those who will be involved with the specification, analysis, development, or technical management of military radar, electro-optics, communications or information systems, where the emphasis is on an electronic warfare environment.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will learn
Signal processing and statistics provide the analytical tools required to describe the signals found in communications and sensor systems and also the techniques employed in such receivers. This course is a foundation module for anyone who is intent on studying communications, radar and electro-optics systems at Masters level.
Training Course Content
Core content
The course covers the following topics:
Statistics and Noise
- random variables and probability distributions,
- covariance and correlation,
- cascaded networks and the mathematical representation of noise.
Analogue Signal Processing
- analogue methods used to describe, analyse and process signals and the behaviour of systems,
- Fourier and Laplace transforms,
- correlation and convolution,
- impulse response and transfer function.
Digital Signal Processing
- matched filters,
- the z-transform,
- advantages/disadvantages of DSP,
- sampling and quantisation,
- digital filters,
- the DFT and FFT, DSP applications in communications and radar.
Decision Theory
- hypothesis testing,
- probabilities of false alarm and detection,
- Bayesian systems,
- error probability and bit error rate,
- receiver operating.
Course delivery details
Course structure
The course is run once each year. Each course lasts for 5 days.
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