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Radar Book Reviews

Read published reviews for selected Artech House book titles in Radar engineering from sources including Biophotonics International Magazine and SciTech Book Review.

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Chronicling the new field of cognitive radar (CR), this cutting-edge resource provides an accessible introduction to the theory and applications of CR, and presents a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in this emerging area. The first book on the subject, Cognitive Radar covers important breakthroughs in advanced radar systems, and offers new and powerful methods for combating difficult clutter environments. You find details on specific algorithmic and real-time high-performance embedded computing (HPEC) architectures. This practical book is supported with numerous examples that clarify key topics, and includes more than 370 equations.

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This authoritative reference offers you a comprehensive understanding of the underpinnings and practical applications of artificial neural networks and their use in the retrieval of geophysical parameters. You find expert guidance on the development and evaluation of neural network algorithms that process data from a new generation of hyperspectral sensors. The book provides clear explanations of the mathematical and physical foundations of remote sensing systems, including radiative transfer and propagation theory, sensor technologies, and inversion and estimation approaches. You discover how to use neural networks to approximate remote sensing inverse functions with emphasis on model selection, preprocessing, initialization, training, and performance evaluation.

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The world’s most authoritative resource on LPI emitter design and counter-LPI techniques is now updated with the latest developments in the field, complete with 360 task-clarifying illustrations and ready-to-use MATLAB simulations for every LPI modulation in the book. This revised and expanded second edition brings you to the cutting edge with new chapters on LPI radar design, including over-the-horizon radar, random noise radar, and netted LPI radar. You also discover critical LPI detection techniques, parameter extraction signal processing techniques, and anti-radiation missile design strategies to counter LPI radar.

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This newly revised and updated edition of the classic Artech House book, MTI and Pulsed Doppler Radar, offers you a complete and current presentation of the subject. You find expert radar design and analysis guidance, as well as clear descriptions and characteristics of modern Doppler radars that cannot be found in any other book. The second edition includes a new interactive CD-ROM with Matlab® software to help save you time with your challenging work in the field.

From fundamental principles, Doppler radar waveform design and filtering, Doppler radar performance measures, and clutter properties and data… to optimum radar Doppler processing, MTI systems, pulsed Doppler systems, and special topics in Doppler radar systems, this comprehensive resource offers in depth discussions on a wide range of critical topics for your radar design projects. This detailed reference is supported with over 350 illustrations and more than 730 equations.

Software Included: CD-ROM Included! Contains time-saving Matlab® software that serves as a valuable tool for the analysis and design of MTI and Pulsed Doppler Radar. The disc also includes several full-color images that support key topics discussed in the book.

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Based on the author's extensive research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, this authoritative resource offers an in-depth description of adaptive array design, emphasizing the RF characteristics, mutual coupling among elements, and field testing methods. It provides you with proven techniques for challenging projects involving radar, communication systems and antenna design. For the first time in any book, you find design guidance on specialized types of arrays, using monopole radiating elements, slotted cylinders and ultrawideband dipoles. Moreover, this unique book presents a focused near-field technique that quantifies the far-field performance of large aperture radar systems and communication systems.

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This revised and updated edition to the popular Artech House book, Modern Radar Systems, offers complete and current coverage of the subject, including new material on accuracy, resolution, and convolution and correlation. The book features more than 540 illustrations (drawn in Maple V) that offer a greater understanding of various waveforms, and other two- and three-dimensional functions, to help you more accurately analyze radar system performance. The effects of pulse shaping on transmitter stability and spectra are discussed—a topic which is becoming more and more important in the age of electromagnetic compatibility. The book addresses the importance of low attenuation and reflection between the main radio frequency blocks, including the use of oversized waveguides for long runs.

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Whether you are an experienced radar engineer striving to optimize system performance or a graduate student looking to gain a practical understanding of radar system design, this authoritative volume is a smart choice. The book helps you master critical system analysis and design skills, and shows you how to use digital computer simulation to verify that an analysis is correct and that a design is optimal. This comprehensive resource covers a wide range of essential topics, from matrix, vector and linear equations, noise and clutter generation, Filters (FIR and IIR), and fast Fourier transforms… to ambiguity functions, antennas, target detection, and the Kalman filter… to the Monte Carlo method, constant false alarm rate (CFAR) processing, and moving target indicators (MTI). Striking the right balance between depth and breadth, the book offers you a solid foundation in all the key topics covered, supporting discussions with detailed examples, more than 340 equations, and over 250 illustrations.

Software Included: CD-ROM Included! Contains over 200 valuable simulation and implementation tools, written in C++, to help you with your challenging projects in the field.

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This powerful, updated software offers you a highly accurate and efficient tool for solving the radar equation for the maximum range at which a radar can achieve target detection under conditions of various interference sources, such as thermal noise, surface clutter, precipitation, chaff, and jamming. An invaluable, time-saving resource. It tabulates the radar loss budget and calculates the errors in tracking the target as a function of range. The new version of this popular software boasts superior graphics capabilities, making every step of the calculation process visible to you. Version 3.0 also improves upon past versions by allowing you to make modifications to accommodate special requirements not anticipated by the software creator.

System Requirements: PC with Mathcad® installed. Windows 98Se, Me, NT 4.0 SP6, 2000 SP2, XP or higher. 233 MHz or higher (1 GHz or higher recommended). Minimum 96 MB, 256 MB or more recommended.

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Written by leading experts in industry and academia, this authoritative resource offers you a solid understanding of radiometer systems and shows you how to design a system based on given specifications, taking into account both technical aspects and geophysical realities. The book provides you with a complete explanation of radiometer sensitivity, and describes the concept of absolute accuracy and it’s associated problems. The four major radiometer principles – total power, Dicke, noise-injection, and correlation – are presented in detail and their sensitivities are derived from the basic sensitivity formula provided in the book. Additionally, you find detailed review of the DTU noise-injection radiometer system.

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Combining and updating the author's two definitive volumes on electronic intelligence (ELINT), this is your indispensable reference on radar's role in ELINT. Starting with the basic theory of range equations and probability of intercept, the book examines ELINT systems characteristics, performance issues, and essential functions. It gives you new insight into PRI and intrapulse analysis so you can obtain better results and more data for identifying signals.

Supported with over 240 illustrations and more nearly 300 equations, this in-depth resource helps you more fully understand the benefits and limitations of ELINT information that is so crucial in electronic warfare. You learn how to draw more cohesive conclusions about radar's capabilities that are implied by observed signal parameters. Moreover, the book teaches you how to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of different receiver configurations and master the challenges of LPI radar signals.

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