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Author:

Malhotra, Akshay

Title:

Solving Long-Standing Meteor Mysteries

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radio Science
Meteors
Radar
Aspect Sensitivity

File:

Download Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

John David Mathews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Hampton Nelson Shirer, Committee Member

Author:

Seal, Ryan

Title:

Software Defined Radar for VHF Meteor Research at the Pennsylvania State University

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

SDR
Open Source
VHF
Radar
Meteor
Remote Sensing
Atmosphere

File:

Download meteor_summary.pdfDownload thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gallagher, Kyle A

Title:

Simultaneous Human Detection And Ranging Using A Millimeter-wave Radar System Transmitting Wideband Noise With An Embedded Tone.

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radar
Noise Radar
Doppler Radar
Human Detection
Human Doppler
Doppler
Micro-Doppler
Millimeter-Wave
Millimeter Wave

File:

Download Thesis_Gallagher.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Herrold, Brian Alexander

Title:

Complete Vector Network Analyzer Approach to Ice Penetrating Radar System

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Ice
Radar
Vector Network Analyzer
VNA
Radioglaciology

File:

Download Herrold_thesis_with_trvial_thesis_office_corrections.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sorbello, Robert Michael

Title:

The Design and Implementation of a Cognitive Radar for the Study of Plasma Instabilities at Equatorial and Mid-latitude Regions

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radar
Cognitive Radar
Signal Processing
Ionosphere
Plasma Instabilities

File:

Download 1-RobertSorbello-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Julio Urbina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr James Breakall, Committee Member
Matthew Robert Kumjian, Committee Member

Author:

Bufler, Travis Dale

Title:

Radar Signature Analysis of Indoor Clutter and stationary Human Target Classification

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radar
SVM
FDTD
RCS
Indoor Clutter
Human Scattering
Target Classification

File:

Download Bufler-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Member
Randy Young, Committee Member

Author:

Phelan, Brian Richard

Title:

Theory, Design, Analysis, and Implementation of a Spectrally Agile Frequency-Incrementing Reconfigurable (SAFIRE) Foward-Looking Ground Penetrating Radar

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Stepped-Frequency
Frequency-Incrementing
Forward-Looking
Ground-Penetrating
Radar
GPR
Army Research Laboratory
ARL
Mine Detection
Thinned-Spectrum
Crowded Spectrum
FLGPR
IED
UXO
Synthetic-Aperture Radar
SAR
RF
Radio Frequency
Radio Frequency Interference
RFI
Recursive Sidelobe Mnimization
RSM
SAFIRE
Spectrally Agile Frequency Incrementing Reconfigurable
Signal-to-Clutter Ratio
SCR
Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SNR
Ultra-Wideband
UWB
Yuma
Yuma AZ
YPG

File:

Download BRPhelan_PhD_Dissertation_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram M. Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy J. Kane, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T. Lanagan, Committee Member
Randy K. Young, Committee Member
Michael T. Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Allebach, Joshua M

Title:

Propagation and Clutter Considerations for Long Range Radar Surveillance Using Noise Waveforms

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radar
Noise Radar
Long Range Radar
Noise Waveform

File:

Download JoshuaAllebachMSThesisFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Member

Author:

Gebhardt, Evan Thomas

Title:

Mimo Radar Through the Wall Imaging Techniques

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radar
Through-Wall-Radar
Wall Mitigation
Target Detection
SAR
MIMO
Virtual Array

File:

Download Gebhardt_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram M Naraynan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James K Breakall, Committee Member
Ram M Naraynan, Committee Member

Author:

Aldayel, Omar Saad

Title:

Tractable Radar Waveform Design Under Practical Constraints

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radar
waveform design
convex optimization
Ambiguity Function Shaping
SQR
SCF
BIC
ASR
beampattern design
constant modulus constraint
similarity constraint
spectral constraint

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Necdet Serhat Aybat, Outside Member