Principles of Modern Radar

✍ Scribed by Jerry L. Eaves (auth.), Jerry L. Eaves, Edward K. Reedy (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 708
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book, Principles of Modern Radar, has as its genesis a Georgia Tech short course of the same title. This short course has been presented an­ nually at Georgia Tech since 1969, and a very comprehensive set of course notes has evolved during that seventeen year period. The 1986 edition of these notes ran to 22 chapters, and all of the authors involved, except Mr. Barrett, were full time members of the Georgia Tech research faculty. After considerable encouragement from various persons at the university and within the radar community, we undertook the task of editing the course notes for formal publication. The contents of the book that ensued tend to be practical in nature, since each contributing author is a practicing engineer or scientist and each was selected to write on a topic embraced by his area(s) of expertise. Prime examples are Chaps. 2, 5, and 10, which were authored by E. F. Knott, G. W. Ewell, and N. C. Currie, respectively. Each of these three researchers is rec­ ognized in the radar community as an expert in the technical area that his chap­ ter addresses, and each had already authored and published a major book on his subject. Several other contributing authors, including Dr. Bodnar, Mr. Bruder, Mr. Corriher, Dr. Reedy, Dr. Trebits, and Mr. Scheer, also have major book publications to their credit.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction to Radar....Pages 1-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
EM Waves and the Reflectivity Process....Pages 31-50
The Propagation Process....Pages 51-71
Multipath Phenomena and Effects....Pages 72-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-106
Radar Transmitters....Pages 107-147
Radar Antennas....Pages 148-181
Radar Receivers....Pages 182-232
Radar Indicators and Displays....Pages 233-250
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Detection in Noise....Pages 253-280
Clutter Characteristics and Effects....Pages 281-342
Target Models....Pages 343-367
Adaptive Thresholding and Automatic Detection....Pages 368-393
Front Matter....Pages 395-396
Continuous Wave Radar....Pages 397-421
MTI and Pulsed Doppler Radar....Pages 422-464
Pulse Compression in Radar Systems....Pages 465-501
Synthetic Aperture Radar....Pages 502-537
Front Matter....Pages 539-539
Range Tracking....Pages 541-566
Angle Tracking....Pages 567-597
Doppler Frequency Tracking....Pages 598-617
Front Matter....Pages 619-619
Polarimetric Fundamentals and Techniques....Pages 621-645
Front Matter....Pages 619-619
Target Recognition Considerations....Pages 646-677
Front Matter....Pages 679-679
Radar ECCM Considerations and Techniques....Pages 681-699
Back Matter....Pages 701-712

✦ Subjects

Signal, Image and Speech Processing