1. Open book, open notes, bring a calculator
Exam 1 information
Open book, open notes, bring a calculator
Eligible topics (not an exhaustive list)
Everything covered up to and including coherent integration, incoherent integration, monopulse techniques, pulse compression, chirps, FM-CW, stretch processing, time sidelobes & windowing (i.e., does not include radar signal processing, SAR concepts, …)
Analog-to-digital converter, sampling concepts, dynamic range
Airborne radar, imaging radar, swath width, data rate
Antennas, beamwidth, directivity, gain, effective area
Bistatic radar, bistatic SAR, range resolution and Doppler
Coherent integration, incoherent integration, pulse compression
Doppler frequency shift and radial velocity
FM-CW radar
Pulse repetition frequency, ambiguous range, Nyquist
Radar range equation & SNR
Radar geometry (including bistatic configurations)
Range resolution (slant vs. ground)
Resolution & accuracy
System dynamic range (instantaneous vs. sensitivity time control (STC))
Terminology, variables, units

2. Open book, open notes, bring a calculator
Exam 1 information
Open book, open notes, bring a calculator
Specific topics (not an exhaustive list)
Radar analysis Doppler frequency shift PRF and target range
Radar terminology and concepts
Airborne radar system ground range resolution, PRF, antenna characteristics
Application of the radar range equation SNR vs. range, processing parameters, waveform parameters
Exam involves 8 questions requiring calculations to solve for a parameter
Plus several 4 questions requiring short answers (words, not numbers)

3. Open book, open notes, bring a calculator
Exam 1 information
Open book, open notes, bring a calculator
Results
Mean score: %
Standard deviation: 10 %
High score: 97 %
Low score: 61 %
Number of scores in the 90s: 7
Number of scores in the 80s: 5
Number of scores in the 70s: 1
Number of scores in the 60s: 2