This book describes the steps involved in the evaluation of radar design and performance without complicated math. Easily understood by both engineers and non-technical personnel, it contains a comprehensive discussion of the complex factors involved in the radar design process.

With this book practitioners responsible for analyzing, specifying or evaluating RCS imaging systems will be able to define performance limits using basic physical and mathematical principles. Information on instrumentation systems for acquiring data and two new chapters on applications of new techniques are included. The emphasis of the book is on imaging as applied to radar cross-section measurements. With it the reader will learn how to use the latest techniques to perform RCS imaging in laboratory or outdoor test ranges. This book is suitable for self-study or for use in a short course for practising engineers.

This book constitutes a short course on noise jamming, range, angle and velocity deception, and on-off keying. The book draws upon current computer simulation capabilities to determine quantitative values of the jammer-to-signal ratios that cause a specified jamming effect.

Walks the reader through adaptive approaches to radar signal processing by detailing the basic concepts of various techniques and then developing equations to analyze their performance. Finally, it presents curves that illustrate the attained performance.

Developed by recognized experts in the field, this first-of-its-kind resource provides an overview of the basic principles of passive radar technology, real passive radar systems and new developments in the industry. It explains in-depth how passive radar works and how it differs from the active type, while demonstrating the benefits and drawbacks of the technology. The book also explores properties of ambiguity functions, digital vs. analog, digitally-coded waveforms, vertical-plane coverage, and satellite-borne and radar illuminators. The book functions as a practical guide on direct signal suppression, passive radar performance prediction and detection and tracking. It contains concrete examples of systems and results, including analog TV, FM radio, cell phone base stations, DVB-T and DAB, HF skywave transmissions, indoor WiFi and low-cost scientific remote sensing.

This hands-on reference details statistical methods, estimation algorithms, and design techniques for the measurement of rainfall and cloud cover from space.

This book details the advantages of MFAR main parameter design and guides you through parameter and performance evaluation procedures. It presents practical design information on combinations of various radar functions, clutter conditions, multipath, and transmitted waveform design when Doppler filters adapted for clutter cancellation.

Fifteen chapters on topics that include: space-based systems, orbital considerations, ionospheric environment, bistatic radar, rendezvous radar, radar altimeters, scatterometers, thermal control, radar cross section, SBR clutter, prime power systems in space. A planned chapter on T/R modules does no

Explains numeric and symbolic approaches to data association, tracking combination, classification, and situation assessment, and provides an overview of data fusion theory and mathematical formalisms.

This cutting-edge resource offers you complete how toù guidance on digital processing of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data.

You discover how SAR is used to obtain a high-resolution image from a satellite and learn the mathematical structure and spectral properties of the signal received from a SAR system. Supported with over 600 equations and over 250 figures, the book arms you with state-of-the-art signal processing algorithms and helps you choose the best algorithm for a given SAR system and image quality requirements. This hands-on reference shows you how to process received SAR data into a well-focused image on a digital computer, using the popular range Doppler, chirp scaling, omega-K and SPECAN algorithms.

In addition, the book teaches you how to process ScanSAR data using the full-aperture, SPECAN, short IFFT and extended chirp scaling algorithms. You also learn how to estimate the Doppler centroid frequency and azimuth FM rate from a geometry model or from received data.

Written from a digital signal processing point of view, this authoritative volume can be fully understood by professionals with a general electrical engineering background.

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Modern-day radar problems can't be solved by conventional radar technology -- but they can be solved with the ground-breaking signal processing and analysis methods presented in this unique, expertly authored book. Illustrated with nearly 400 figures and including over 70 equations.

This work provides engineers with the information necessary to integrate the fields of optics and electronics. Using a blend of expertise from industry, academia and government, the text shows the applications of this technology, both for future systems and in the evolution of today's radar. The areas covered include optical integrated circuits, optical control of phased array antennas, and high-speed signal processing. Intended for anyone interested in the future of radar, this text is augmented with 508 equations and 285 illustrations.

This second edition of Airborne Pulsed Doppler Radar brings you up-to-date on new radar technologies since 1987 -- plus those likely to appear in the next five years. The book provides valuable insight into specific issues unique to airborne systems and contains the most extensive treatment of the medium-PRF waveform for more accurate performance analysis. Complete with nearly 250 illustrations and 290 equations, the book provides the background you need to:

- Plan and predict the outcome of test programs

- Evaluate proposals for new radar systems or upgrades

- Analyze the performance of airborne radars in various scenarios

- Understand the capabilities and limitations of airborne systems

This book is a valuable reference for radar engineers, missile-seeker system engineers, and users of military airborne radar. It keeps you current on the fundamental principles and system design rationale for establishing radar characteristics, signal processing for target detection performance, and signal processing for tracking and system testing.

This reference describes techniques for controlling the RCS of targets, provides analytical methods for estimating RCS, develops models for the design of low RCS targets and antennas, and discusses several RCS enhancement techniques.

Increasing information content is an important scientific problem in modern observation systems development. Radar, or microwave, imaging, a technique which combines radar techniques with digital or optical information processing, can be used for this purpose. Drawing on their own research, the authors provide an overview of the field and explain why a unified approach based on wave field processing techniques, including holographic and tomographic approaches, is necessary in high resolution radar design. Such techniques use the complex field incident on an observation surface to produce a hologram, which can be used to reconstruct an image of the object or to restore some of its physical parameters. This makes it possible to extract the size, coordinates and radar cross-section of individual scattering centres. The book focuses on holography and tomography for quasimonochromatic and broadband signals, and gives detailed coverage of the basic physical methods, inverse problems and mathematical principles. It also contains discussion of new areas in imaging radar theory, holographic radar, the questions of estimation and improving radar image quality, and finally various practical applications in the fields of space, airborne radar, air traffic control, medical diagnostics and remote sensing.

Dr. Page tells the full story of the discovery and development of radar, the most valuable weapon of World War Two and one of the marvels of our technological age. He starts with the accidental discovery of radar when in 1922 A.H. Taylor and L.C. Young noticed that ships on the Anacosta River interrupted radio transmission and follows the development of pulse radar to its present applications in navigation, weather forecasting, astronomy and other technical fields. Woven into the story is a clear explanation of radar equipment and the physical principles involved.

The first book to bring together all aspects of ECM/ECCM as they relate to SAR. Written by an industry expert with more than 30 years of experience in the field.

Offers the detailed interdisciplinary information needed to understand, design and implement advanced intelligent transportation systems. The text presents principles and practices that can be applied to a wide range of vehicle location and navigation systems - placing special emphasis on the vehicle side of the system - and synthesizes information scattered among different engineering fields. The technologies covered include fuzzy-logic-based algorithms, the field-emitter display (FED), and a software technology for 3-D map displays.

This book presents the basic principles, analyses, design formulas, and characteristics of various fin-line configurations. You'll find summaries of hundreds of rigorous formulas as well as approximate closed-form expressions, which can be readily programmed to generate design data for any structure.