Polarization and Waveform Diversity Radar Methods And their Application in Disaster Management

Abstract

The Workshop will provide a succinct and tailored-to-need insight into the judiciously chosen basic concepts underlying the currently evolving developments in Polarisation and Waveform Diversity methods in multi-parameter radar applications with special reference to disaster management. The course, though focussed on the aforementioned topics, will be general enough to appeal to radar and propagation engineers and the disaster management scientists dealing with multi-parameter remote sensing and vehicle-borne radar sensors. The course combines oral presentation with hands-on exercises on polarisation and signal processing (using MATLAB routines), particularly of waveform signals. The treatment will allude to the role of such aspects in disaster management applications. The primary objective of the tutorial workshop is to provide ‘key fundamentals relatable to the state-of-the-art scenario’ that will appeal not only to the newcomer but also to the established engineers in the field. The tutorial approach of the workshop presentations and the structure of the contents will be tailored to make the material comprehensible to participants from diverse backgrounds, engineering and non-engineering alike. In this spirit, the workshop will feature the following key topics: Key Basic Concepts for the understanding the latest research level features of Polarimetric and Waveform Radar Systems and Signals; Hand-on exercises on basic Polarimetric and waveform applications; Radar Signal Processing for SAR Sensors: A Hands-on approach; Waveform-Based Methods of MIMO and SISO radar systems; Humanitarian Disaster management at large and the role of Microwave Remote Sensing.