Radar Engineering from Pulse-Doppler to Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR): Radar Range Equation, FMCW Chirps, Pulse Compression, Phased-Array Beamsteering, and InSAR Ground Deformation

Deep End Era. Engineering with Sankalp · Oct 29, 2026 · 1h 1m

From millimeter-wave automotive and tank-level FMCW radars to airborne AESA phased arrays and spaceborne Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), we build radar engineering from first principles: the fourth-power range equation, chirp pulse compression, Doppler ambiguity, SAR azimuth compression, and millimetre ground-deformation interferometry.

Chapters

00:00:00 Opening: Seeing Through Polar Night and Eight Hundred Kilometres of Cloud

00:04:01 The Fourth-Power Radar Range Equation, Radar Cross Section (RCS), and Thermal Noise Floor

00:09:35 The Pulse-Width Dilemma and Klauder &…