Radar Research Group Wiki

The Radar group covers a very wide range of research. A couple of key books that may help when introducing yourself to the subject area are listed below:

• ‘Introduction to Airborne Radar’, George Stimpson - Very good basic introduce to many aspects of radar research. Plenty of diagrams and visual representations of concepts.
• ‘Introduction to Radar Systems’, Merrill Skolnik - Comprehensive introduction to radar also, less diagrammatic.
• ‘Radar Handbook’, Third Edition, Merrill Skolnik - This book is good for references to certain definitions or equations.
• ‘Principles of Modern Radar: Basic Principles’, Mark A. Richards (Editor), James A. Scheer (Editor), William A. Holm - More recent textbook which is becoming the new standard introductory resource.

UCL Library: The science library is located very close to the EE building, just turn left out of the doors of Roberts building and walk 100m and it is on your left.

IET Library: This has more Radar specific books available and if you are a member of the IET you can borrow them from here. It is located at IET Library/Archives, Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL. You can even request IET library to post books to you too.

Online resources: IEEE Xplore: This is a database of paper from journals, conferences, etc.

Access to this resource can be gained directly by going to http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore OR if you are off the UCL campus it is possible to access it through the UCL library website.

To access while off campus go to this link: 1. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/database/index.shtml 2. click on ‘I’ from the alphabet 3. Select IEEE Xplore from the list of databases 4. Then login using your UCL username and password

Key Journals There are a few key journals that cover the areas of research that the SSCG works within.

• IET, Radar Sonar and Navigation. - http://www.ietdl.org/IET-RSN
• IEEE, Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=62

There are a number of possible taught courses that can help your personal and professional development while studying / working within the Radar group. Please see Taught Courses for further details

The department has PCB fabrication and assembly capability https://wwws.ee.ucl.ac.uk/dept/teachlab/pcb (in the 6th floor workshop) for rapid prototyping of hardware. We also use external board houses to help us develop PCBs with more demanding specifications.

* Radar specific

• An interactive introduction to Radar - http://media.thales-nederland.nl/thisisradar/ThisIsRadar.html
• Radar Tutorial notes with diagrams - http://www.radartutorial.eu/index.en.html

* FPGA Tutorials

• What is a FPGA - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUsHwi4M4xE
• FPGA Basics - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2wsockKwPQ