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LEC # TOPICS
1 Introduction and Review
2 Review, Thermal Noise
3 3-D Thermal Noise, Shot N
4 Receiver Power Sensitivity
5 Spectral Measurements, G, F
6 Receiver Noise, Multiports
7 Mixers, Noise Reduction, PTs
8 Optical Detection
9 Bolometers, Antenna Basics
10 Basic Wire Antennas, Arrays
11 Wire Antennas
12 Aperture Antennas
13 Polarization, Phase Errors
14 Binary Communications
Quiz 1 (Closed Book)
15 Channel Coding
16 Source Coding, Analog Basics
17 Analog Modulation
18 Aperture Synthesis
19 Interferometry
20 Basic Radar, Ambiguity
21 Synth. Aperture Radar (SAR)
22 Wave Propagation
23 Linear, Non-Linear Estimation
24 Non-Linear Estimation (cont.)
Remote Sensing
Course Summary
Quiz #2 (Closed Book)