Radar
Design Principles:
Signal Processing
and the Environment

Second Edition
by Fred E. Nathanson

A true classic in the field, this widely respected source on radar design offers coverage of digital technology, weather radar, microburst detection, and digital correlators.

Features include:

• Radar targets
• Propagation, atmospheric effects, weather and chaff
• Sea and land scattering

Providing a broad look at modern theory as well as a review of all the developments in practical equipment design and construction in recent years, this resource includes four chapters on detection theory, plus seven on waveforms and signal processing. Other chapters include essential data on radar targets, background, and propagation.

Throughout, the emphasis is on radar design to cope with the "total environment," including unwanted reflections from sea, land, precipitation, chaff, thermal noise, and jamming. The last chapter identifies newer, more specialized radar techniques, such as space-based radar, and describes how to analyze or simulate coherent radars including the limitations and related loss terms.

Radar Design Principles is an indispensable reference for radar engineers.

Contents

1. Radar and Its Composite Environment
2. Review of Radar Range Performance Computations
3. Statistical Relationships for Various Detection Processes
4. Automatic Detection by Nonlinear, Sequential, and Adaptive Processes
5. Radar Targets
6. Atmospheric Effects, Weather, and Chaff
7. Sea and Land Backscatter
8. Signal-Processing Concepts and Waveform Design
9. Moving Target Indicators (MTI)
10. Environmental Limitations of CW Radars
11. Pulse Doppler and Burst Waveforms
12. Phase-Coding Techniques
13. Frequency-Modulated Pulse Compression Waveforms
14. Hybrid Processors, Meteorological Radar, and System Performance Analysis

Index

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