Conveners
Short Course 1: Weather radar system design including antenna front-end aspects
- Stefano Turso (Fraunhofer FHR)
Description
By means of a hands-on exercise, the workshop is designed to let participants experiment with several crucial aspects to be considered when designing a pulsed radar with both mechanically or electronically steered array antenna. On the basis of genuine specifications for commercial weather radars, topics like system architecture, power budget, background noise, waveform design, antenna arrays and feeding networks will be addressed. Dependencies in between different design areas will be highlighted to learn which parameters play a major role in setting up the overall performance. Tutoring will be provided to reach the workshop goals and achieve a system level overview of the many aspects involved in a radar design.
