Radar essentials
Subtitle: a concise handbook for radar design and performance analysis : principles, equations, data
By: G. Richard Curry
Publisher: Scitech Pub. Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Raleigh, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9781613530078
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Radar; Evaluation; Handbooks, manuals; Design and construction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-127) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1.Radar Basics; title: 1.1.Radar Concept and Operation; title: 1.2.Radar Functions; title: 1.3.Types of Radars; title: 1.4.Frequency Bands; title: 1.5.Military Nomenclature; title: 1.6.Radar Configurations; title: 2.Radar Subsystems; title: 2.1.Antennas; title: 2.2.Transmitters; title: 2.3.Receivers; title: 2.4.Transmit/Receive Modules; title: 2.5.Signal and Data Processing; title: 3.Radar Performance; title: 3.1.Radar Cross Section (RCS); title: 3.2.Signal-to-Noise Ratio; title: 3.3.Detection; title: 3.4.Search; title: 3.5.Measurement; title: 3.6.Tracking; title: 4.Radar Environment; title: 4.1.Atmospheric Losses; title: 4.2.Rain Loss; title: 4.3.Atmospheric Refraction; title: 4.4.Terrain Masking and Multipath; title: 4.5.Radar Clutter; title: 4.6.Ionospheric Effects; title: 4.7.Electronic Countermeasures (ECM); title: 5.Radar Techniques; title: 5.1.Waveforms; title: 5.2.Moving Target Indication (MTI) and Displaced Phase-Center Array (DPCA); title: 5.3.Pulse Doppler and Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP); title: 5.4.Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR); title: 5.5.Classification, Discrimination, and Target Identification; title: 6.Computation Aids; title: 6.1.Units and Conversion Factors; title: 6.2.Constants; title: 6.3.Decibels.