This course is a friendly (but still serious) tour of microwave remote sensing and wireless channel modeling—basically, how electromagnetic waves behave when they leave your antenna, hit the real world, and come back with stories. We’ll cover radar and radiometric sensing essentials (propagation in lossy media, polarization, reflection/transmission, antennas, scattering, and radiative transfer) and then connect that same physics to channel modeling for communications and sensing (path loss, shadowing, multipath, fading, Doppler, and time variation). It’s best for senior undergrads, grad students, or professionals with a bachelor’s background in physics, electronics, electrical engineering, or communications—if calculus and signals-and-systems don’t scare you, you’re in the right place. I also gratefully acknowledge guidance and resource sharing from Prof. Fawwaz T. Ulaby (University of Michigan).
