Radar Foundations for Imaging and Advanced Concepts

Radar Foundations for Imaging and Advanced Concepts
Author: Roger Sullivan
Publisher: SciTech
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2004
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781891121227

Through courses internally taught at IDA, Dr. Roger Sullivan has devised a book that brings readers fully up to speed on the most essential quantitave 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. Whether you're 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. With this book, you're taken 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 SAR 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 for basic airborne radar understanding, as well as a broad introduction to the field of radar imaging.

Bistatic Radar

Bistatic Radar
Author: Nicholas J. Willis
Publisher: SciTech Publishing
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2005
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1891121456

This is the only English language book on bistatic radar and provides a history of bistatic systems that points out to potential designers, the applications that have worked and the dead-ends not worth pursuing.

Fundamentals of Radar Imaging

Fundamentals of Radar Imaging
Author: Margaret Cheney
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2009-10-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0898716772

Provides mathematicians with the background they need to work in radar imaging. The focus is on showing the connection between the physics and the mathematics and on supplying an intuitive mathematical understanding of basic concepts. This book will be useful to graduate students and applied mathematicians working in radar imaging.

Principles of Modern Radar

Principles of Modern Radar
Author: Mark A. Richards
Publisher: SciTech Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-02-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781839533815

Principles of Modern Radar: Basic Principles is a comprehensive text for courses in radar systems and technology, a professional training textbook for formal in-house courses and for new hires; a reference for ongoing study following a radar short course and a self-study and professional reference book.

Radar Cross Section

Radar Cross Section
Author: Eugene F. Knott
Publisher: SciTech Publishing
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2004-06-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1891121251

The leading text and reference on radar cross section (RCS) theory and applications, this work presents a comparison of two radar signal strengths. One is the strength of the radar bean sweeping over a target, the other is the strength of the reflected echo senses by the receiver. This book shows how the RCS "gauge" can be predicted for theoretical objects.

Mathematical Foundations of Imaging, Tomography and Wavefield Inversion

Mathematical Foundations of Imaging, Tomography and Wavefield Inversion
Author: Anthony J. Devaney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2012-06-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1139510142

Inverse problems are of interest and importance across many branches of physics, mathematics, engineering and medical imaging. In this text, the foundations of imaging and wavefield inversion are presented in a clear and systematic way. The necessary theory is gradually developed throughout the book, progressing from simple wave equation based models to vector wave models. By combining theory with numerous MATLAB based examples, the author promotes a complete understanding of the material and establishes a basis for real world applications. Key topics of discussion include the derivation of solutions to the inhomogeneous and homogeneous Helmholtz equations using Green function techniques; the propagation and scattering of waves in homogeneous and inhomogeneous backgrounds; and the concept of field time reversal. Bridging the gap between mathematics and physics, this multidisciplinary book will appeal to graduate students and researchers alike. Additional resources including MATLAB codes and solutions are available online at www.cambridge.org/9780521119740.

Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar

Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar
Author: Andrea Benedetto
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2015-04-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319048139

This book, based on Transport and Urban Development COST Action TU1208, presents the most advanced applications of ground penetrating radar (GPR) in a civil engineering context, with documentation of instrumentation, methods and results. It explains clearly how GPR can be employed for the surveying of critical transport infrastructure, such as roads, pavements, bridges and tunnels and for the sensing and mapping of underground utilities and voids. Detailed attention is also devoted to use of GPR in the inspection of geological structures and of construction materials and structures, including reinforced concrete, steel reinforcing bars and pre/post-tensioned stressing ducts. Advanced methods for solution of electromagnetic scattering problems and new data processing techniques are also presented. Readers will come to appreciate that GPR is a safe, advanced, non destructive and noninvasive imaging technique that can be effectively used for the inspection of composite structures and the performance of diagnostics relevant to the entire life cycle of civil engineering works.

Microwave Passive Direction Finding

Microwave Passive Direction Finding
Author: Stephen E. Lipsky
Publisher: SciTech Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2004
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1891121235

Microwave Passive Direction Finding unifies direction finding (DF) theory and brings together into a single source wide-ranging information on the technology of measuring the direction-of-arrival of microwave signals. Throughout the material, there is authoritative information useful to preparing a detailed technical proposal for new business that has been compiled from many years of defense industry presentations, reports, and systems development. Diagrams and photographs of state-of-the-art equipment depict the methods discussed, and equations and charts facilitate a "hands-on" approach to calculating system performance. The book also presents rarely published systems concepts, such as digital preprocessing, supercommutation, and wide RF bandwidth signal detection methods. Specific sections cover evolution and use of monopulse passive DF receiver theory, design of antenna elements for conformal DF coverage, receiver configurations, DF antenna arrays, interferometer DF techniques, computation methods for signal detection, probability of detection, accuracy of DF systems, and signal processing and display methods. More than any book on this technology, Microwave Passive Direction Finding anticipates the questions that arise in the DF design process. The chapters are organized to stand alone, making the book useful as a text/reference for the practicing engineer. At the same time, the material is organized inductively, so that it can be used for a college or seminar text.