Radar Principles

by Nadav Levanon

Overview

An advanced treatment of the main concepts of radar. Systematic andorganized, it nicely balances readability with mathematical rigor.Many techniques and examples have been chosen from the radarindustry (Rayleigh fluctuating targets are used as they yieldsimple expressions for the probability of detection), and othersfor their pedagogical value (Costas signals lead the coded radarsignals because their ambiguity function can be intuitivelydeduced). Ordered statistics is covered in more depth than otherCFAR techniques because its performance can be obtainedanalytically without resorting to simulation methods. Contains manyexercises.

An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all theproblems in the book is available from the Wiley editorialdepartment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471858812
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/19/1988
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.36(w) x 9.43(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

NADAV LEVANON is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems at Tel-Aviv University, and head of its Weinstein Research Institute for Signal Processing. He is an IEEE Fellow, cited for "contributions to radar signal analysis and detection." He is the author of Radar Principles.

Table of Contents

Partial table of contents:

RADAR MEASUREMENTS.

Delay and Range.

Doppler Shift and Range Rate.

CROSS SECTION OF RADAR TARGETS.

Spheres.

Radar Cross Section of Antennas.

RADAR DETECTION.

Integration.

Binary Integration and Cumulative Probabilities.

GROUND EFFECTS-MULTIPATH AND CLUTTER.

The Rayleigh Criterion.

Multipath Propagation.

THE MATCHED FILTER.

Example of a Matched Filter.

Complex Representation of Bandpass Signals.

THE AMBIGUITY FUNCTION.

Proving Rules (a)-(d) of the Ambiguity Function.

THE AMBIGUITY FUNCTION OF BASIC SIGNALS.

Single-frequency Pulse.

Coherent Pulse Train.

CODED RADAR SIGNALS.

Frequency coding (Costas Signals).

Phase Coding.

ACCURACY OF RADAR MEASUREMENTS.

Delay Estimation Using the Signal Envelope.

Measurement Accuracy and the Ambiguity Function.

PROCESSING A COHERENT PULSE TRAIN.

I & Q Sampling.

Imbalance inthe I & Q Channels.

MOVING-TARGET INDICATOR (MTI).

Clutter Spectrum.

Double Canceller.

CONSTANT FALSE-ALARM RATE (CFAR).

Cell-averaging CFAR.

Cluttered Map CFAR.

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR).

Phase and Frequency History of a Point Target.

Range Migration.

MONOPULSE ANTENNA TRACKING.

Monopulse Systems.

Monopulse Accuracy.

Index.