Radar Foundations for Imaging and Advanced Concepts

by Roger J. Sullivan

Features:

• Only book designed to lead the reader from basic concepts to a survey of imaging and advanced concepts.
• Devotes four full chapters to SAR/ISAR to fully prepare readers for advanced books.
• Exercises included at the end of each chapter for tests of understanding and reinforcement.
• Comprehensive 50-page glossary considerably more extensive than any general radar book.
• Considerable number of new results and methods are included

Through courses taught internally at the Institute for Defense Analysis, Dr. Roger Sullivan has devised a book that brings readers fully up to speed on the most essential quantitative aspects of general radar in order to introduce study of the most exciting and relevant applications to radar imaging and advanced concepts: Synthetic Aperture Radar (4 chapters), Space-time Adaptive Processing, moving target indication (MTI), bistatic radar, low probability of intercept (LPI) radar, weather radar, and ground-penetrating radar.

Radar Foundations for Imaging and Advanced Concepts takes you step-by-step through the development of modern airborne microwave radar, up to the cutting edge of emergent technologies including new results on theoretical 2D and 3D ISAR point-spread functions (PSF) and current discussions concerning dechirp/deskew processing, layover in SAR images, vibrating targets, foliage penetration, image quality parameters, and more. Plus, for students of electrical engineering, physics, and radar, this book provides the best source of basic airborne radar understanding, as well as a broad introduction to the field of radar imaging.

Whether you are a radar novice or experienced professional, this is an essential reference that features the theory and practical application of formulas you use in radar design every day.

Contents

1. Radar Fundamentals
   1. Introduction to Radar
   2. Radar Systems
   3. Interaction of Radar Systems with the External Environment
   4. Elementary Radar Signal Processing
   5. Angle Measurement

2. Imaging Radar
   6. Introduction to Imaging Radar
   7. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
   8. SAR/ISAR Digital Imagery
   9. Target Recognition in SAR/ISAR Imagery

3. Pulse-Doppler Radar and MTI Radar
   10. Pulse-Doppler Radar
   11. Observation of Moving Targets by an Airborne Radar

4. Special Radar Topics
   12. Space-Time Adaptive Processing
   13. Bistatic Radar and Low-Probability-of-Intercept Radar
   14. Weather Radar and Ground-Penetrating Radar

Glossary
Index

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