Low-Angle Radar Land Clutter

Low-Angle Radar Land Clutter
Author: J. Barrie Billingsley
Publisher: William Andrew
Total Pages: 722
Release: 2002-04-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0815518218

A necessary reference for all radar engineers or analysts including many levels of managers, advisors and decision makers in the U.S. and worldwide radar industry. Directly useful in both military (DOD) and civilian (FAA) applications. The result of 20 years of research at MIT Lincoln Lab, this book is of the most significant tehcnological consequence for the industry. It actually solves the problem of low angle radar land clutter by showing the reader how to design and predict the performance of radars that operate in situations where land clutter prevalent. Radar land clutter constitutes the unwanted radar echoes returned from the earth's surface that compete against and interfere with the desired echoes returned by targets such as aircraft and other moving and stationary targets. The ability to accurately predict the effects of land clutter in surface radar has been an unsolved problem for many years. This book is comprehensive in addressing the topic, containing many interrelated results, each important in its own right. It unifies and integrates all the results so as to create a comprehensive, innovative, and unequaled work. The results of this book directly enable the reader to predict land clutter effects in surface radar. Modern military aircraft deliberately fly low to hide their presence from radars that are also dealing with land clutter. Depending on the terrain, the performance of the radar varies greatly from very good to very poor. This book helps radar engineers provide accurate assessments of ground clutter, thus bringing their ability to detect and operate against low flying aircraft to a much higher and much more consistent level.

Academic Press Library in Signal Processing

Academic Press Library in Signal Processing
Author: Fulvio Gini
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 1389
Release: 2013-09-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0123972248

This second volume, edited and authored by world leading experts, gives a review of the principles, methods and techniques of important and emerging research topics and technologies in communications and radar engineering. With this reference source you will: - Quickly grasp a new area of research - Understand the underlying principles of a topic and its application - Ascertain how a topic relates to other areas and learn of the research issues yet to be resolved - Quick tutorial reviews of important and emerging topics of research in array and statistical signal processing - Presents core principles and shows their application - Reference content on core principles, technologies, algorithms and applications - Comprehensive references to journal articles and other literature on which to build further, more specific and detailed knowledge - Edited by leading people in the field who, through their reputation, have been able to commission experts to write on a particular topic

Sea Clutter

Sea Clutter
Author: Keith D. Ward
Publisher: IET
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2006-06-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0863415032

Sea Clutter: Scattering, the K Distribution and Radar Performance examines the statistics of radar scattering from the sea surface in terms of their relevance to radar operating in a maritime environment; including remote sensing, surveillance and targeting applications. A lot of the work in the book is based on the compound Kdistribution model for the amplitude statistics of sea clutter. In addition, the book addresses the specification of performance required by customers and the measurement of performance of systems supplied to customers.

Topics in Radar Signal Processing

Topics in Radar Signal Processing
Author: Graham Weinberg
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2018-05-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1789231205

Radar has been an important topic since its introduction, in a military context, during World War II. Due to advances in technology, it has been necessary to refine the algorithms employed within the signal processing architecture. Hence, this book provides a series of chapters examining some topics in modern radar signal processing. These include synthetic aperture radar, multiple-input multiple-output radar, as well as a series of chapters examining other key issues relevant to the central theme of the book.

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.

Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar

Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar
Author: V. N. Bringi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2001-08-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521623841

This 2001 book provides a detailed introduction to the principles of Doppler and polarimetric radar, focusing in particular on their use in the analysis of weather systems. The design features and operation of practical radar systems are highlighted throughout the book in order to illustrate important theoretical foundations. The authors begin by discussing background topics such as electromagnetic scattering, polarization, and wave propagation. They then deal in detail with the engineering aspects of pulsed Doppler polarimetric radar, including the relevant signal theory, spectral estimation techniques, and noise considerations. They close by examining a range of key applications in meteorology and remote sensing. The book will be of great use to graduate students of electrical engineering and atmospheric science as well as to practitioners involved in the applications of polarimetric radar systems.

Air and Spaceborne Radar Systems

Air and Spaceborne Radar Systems
Author: Philippe Lacomme
Publisher: William Andrew
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2001
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1891121138

Intended for actual users of radar, the book focuses on the history, main principles, functions, modes, properties and specific nature of modern airborne radar. It examines radar's role within the system when carrying out its assigned missions, showing the possibilities of radar, it's limitations and a discussion of how radar may evolve in the future.

Space Based Radar

Space Based Radar
Author: S Unnikrishna Pillai
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2008-01-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0071595929

The First Comprehensive Guide to the Principles, Design Methods, and Applications of Space Based Radar Turn to Space Based Radar for authoritative information on the latest developments in Space Based Radar (SBR), covering fundamental principles, cutting-edge design methods, and several new applications. This SBR guide focuses on clutter and target data generation from an SBR platform, and on Space Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) to enhance the target detection and the clutter cancellation capabilities of the radar system. Designed to save you hours of research time and effort, this one-stop resource explores the full range of SBR topics, including SBR footprint and range foldover phenomenon...Doppler shift that accounts for Earth's rotation...terrain modeling...STAP algorithms for enhanced target detection...and much more. Packed with over 250 full-color illustrations, Space Based Radar features: Complete coverage of the technical issues associated with SBR and their impact on system performance A CD containing all of the book's illustrations, equations, and samples; plus more than 250 PowerPoint slides for self-study or lectures Inside This Pioneering SBR Sourcebook • Introducing Space Based Radar • The Conics • Two Body Orbital Motion and Kepler's Laws • SBR Kinematics • Space Time Adaptive Processing for Space Based Radar • Performance Analysis Using Cramer-Rao Bounds • Waveform Diversity