Events
Short Course on
"Multirate DSP Based Channelizers for Defence Oriented Communications, Surveillance, Satellite, Radar, and Sonar Systems"
by Professor Fredric J. Harris
Sponsored by
MOD University Defence Research Centre (UDRC) in Signal Processing
Communications and Signal Processing (CSP) Group
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department
ImperialCollege, London
Dates: 27 September 2011
Location: Room 611 (Gabor Seminar Room), Electrical and Electronic Engineering Building, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2BT, London, UK
About the Course: Signals are launched, collected, and processed to interrogate, to detect and to extract their information content in every conceivable operational defence scenario and environment. Digital Signal processing is performed to extract signals of interest while suppressing other signals such as noise, interference, and jammers. The primary signal processing tools applied to these tasks are high performance reconfigurable spectrum channelizers and rapid high dynamic range spectrum analyzers. Channelizers can be applied to various signal generation as well as to signal collection applications. Multirate signal processing techniques offer the most cost effective options to implement wide bandwidth channelizers for. Recent developments in channelizer structures now offer rather impressive desirable channelizer capabilities not previously available to system designers. These options include multiple simultaneous channels with arbitrary bandwidths and arbitrary centre frequencies.
This presentation will include material that motivates the use of multirate signal processing and illustrate the unique capabilities of their application. The presentation will be light on mathematics and will emphasize understanding and intuition of the material. We will include many MATLAB demonstrations to illustrate concepts and capabilities. Participants will be guided through the gamut of traditional channel structures through the sequence of design options that convert the standard channelizers into truly remarkable and capable versions. Presentation side trips and emphasis will be responsive to attendee interests and questions: be prepared to ask good questions!
The course is addressed to Masters and PhD students, and researchers with a background on signal processing and digital communications, as well as to professionals interested in modern antenna systems and associated signal processing.
More information about the course and the speaker can be found at the SSPD 2011 website. For any additional information please contact Dr. Thanos Gkelias at a.gkelias@imperial.ac.uk
A £25 nominal fee will be charged for this short course registration. If you would like to attend this course please visit the SSPD 2011 Registration Page