Bistatic Radar

by Nicholas J. Willis

Overview

This is the only English language book on bistatic radar. It starts with James Casper's fine chapter in the first edition of Skolnik's Radar Handbook (1970), capturing previously unpublished work before 1970. It then summarizes and codifies subsequent bistatic radar research and development, especially as catalogued in the special December 1986 IEE journal. It defines and resolves many issues and controversies plaguing bistatic radar, including predicted performance, monostatic equivalence, bistatic radar cross section and resolution, bistatic Doppler, hitchhiking, SAR, ECM/ECCM, and, most importantly, the utility of bistatic radars. The text provides a history of bistatic systems that points out to potential designers, the applications that have worked and the dead-ends not worth pursuing. The text reviews the basic concepts and definitions, and explains the mathematical development of relationships, such as geometry, Ovals of Cassini, dynamic range, isorange and isodoppler contours, target doppler, and clutter doppler spread.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781891121456
Publisher:	The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Publication date:	06/30/2004
Series:	Radar, Sonar and Navigation
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	329
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nicholas J. Willis received a BS degree in mathematics from Stanford Universityin 1956 under an NROTC-Holloway scholarship. He spent five years in the U.S. Navy, two on destroyers and three the Talos guided missile program sixteen years in industry with Philco-Ford, SRI International and Systems Control, Inc.; five years at DARPA; and a final 17 years at Technology Service Corp. Mr Willis now consults and conducts short courses for government and industry. As an SES-3 at DARPA's Tactical Technology Office, Mr Willis was responsible for radar, EW and land warfare programs, including bistatic radars, LPI radars and in particular Pave Mover, the forerunner of JSTARS. When at TSC, he designed one of the F-22 radar modes. Mr Willis has won the DoD's JDR Best Paper Award twice.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
• Chapter 2: History
• Chapter 3: Coordinate Systems, Geometry, and Equations
• Chapter 4: Range Relationships
• Chapter 5: Location and Area Relationships
• Chapter 6: Doppler Relationships
• Chapter 7: Target Resolution
• Chapter 8: Target Cross Section
• Chapter 9: Clutter
• Chapter 10: Electronic Countermeasures and Counter-Countermeasures
• Chapter 11: Multistatic Radars
• Chapter 12: Special Concepts and Applications
• Chapter 13: Special Problems and Requirements
• Appendix A: Early Publications of Bistatic Radar Phenomenology
• Appendix B: Width of a Bistatic Range Cell
• Appendix C: Approximation to the Location Equation
• Appendix D: Area within a Maximum Range Oval of Cassini
• Appendix E: Relationships Between Parameters in Target Location and Clutter Doppler Spread Equations
• Appendix F: Orthogonal Conic Section Theorems

Editorial Reviews

A comprehensive treatment of bistatic radar, largely superceded now by single-site radar systems, but still revived every decade or so. A history of bistatic systems points out to potential designers the applications that have worked and the deadends not worth pursuing. Willis reviews the basic concepts and definitions, and explains the mathematical development of relationships, such as geometry, Ovals of Cassini, dynamic range, isorange and isodoppler contours, target doppler, and clutter doppler spread. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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