Course overview excerpted from Lecture 1. (Image by David Staelin.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. David Staelin
MIT Course Number
6.661
As Taught In
Spring 2003
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course explores the detection and measurement of radio and optical signals encountered in communications, astronomy, remote sensing, instrumentation, and radar. Topics covered include: statistical analysis of signal processing systems, including radiometers, spectrometers, interferometers, and digital correlation systems; matched filters and ambiguity functions; communications channel performance; measurement of random electromagnetic fields, angular filtering properties of antennas, interferometers, and aperture synthesis systems; and radiative transfer and parameter estimation.