Dr Robert Watson BEng, PhD (Essex), MIEEE Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Bath

Research interests

My research interests are in mainly in area of radio science applied to radio propagation and remote sensing:

• Atmospheric radar (weather radars) and radiometer technology
• Active and passive remote sensing techniques (e.g., signals of opportunity for atmospheric science)
• Radio propagation modelling and prediction 1-100GHz (e.g., parabolic equation modelling, "whitespace" modelling)
• Passive radar (collaboration with University of Adelaide)
• Bistatic and multistatic netted radar (especially at millimetre-wave frequencies)
  
• Global Navigation Satellite System technology (e.g., GAARDIAN, SENTINEL tropospheric delay modelling, GNSS jamming and interference)

A sample of current research collaborators: Chronos Technology, e2V, Met Office, Navtech Radar, Ordnance Survey, QinetiQ

Teaching activities

My current teaching activities are:

• Communications Principles (EE20017): Digital communications, sampling, quantization, line coding, channel coding (email link here)
  
• Group Design and Professional Engineering Practice (EE20194): Electronics Design and Manufacturing (email link here)
• Digital communications (EE30031): Channel coding, advanced modulation techniques, spread-spectrum systems (email link here)
• Group design and business I: EE30147 (email link here)
• Group design and business II: EE40148 (email link here)
• Digital Communications (EE50090): Taught in parallel to EE30031 but with extra coursework for MSc students (email link here)
• Spaceborne and Terrestrial remote sensing Systems (EE40136): Radiometry, real and synthetic aperture radar (email link here)
• Final year project ideas: A list of possible projects.
• Notes on using the Department's LPKF S63 PCB milling machine.
  

Note that the links above to lecture notes and course materials will only work from a bath.ac.uk address (or with University of Bath supplied user account credentials). If you can't find the lecture notes here, check on the moodle site.

Professional activities

• UK URSI Commission F (Wave propagation and Remote Sensing) representative 2005-2011
  
• Associate Editor, Radio Science
• Member IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

Internal administration

• Quick links (internal bath.ac.uk only)

Contact details

• Room: University of Bath, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Building 2 East, Level 4, Room 4.6.
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• Telephone: +44 (0)1225 386393
• Fax: +44 (0)1225 386305
• Email: