Introduction to Airborne Radar
2nd Edition
Published on 31. May 1999
Book
Hardback
584 pages
978-0-8194-2850-9 (ISBN)
Description
This revision covers technological advances in modern airborne and space-based radar since the first publication of this work in 1983. It fulfils the need for those who wish to learn the fundamental concepts of radar, regardless of their technical backgrounds. Case studies of various types of radar are used throughout the text. Along with brief overviews of airborne radar's military and civil applications, the work illustrates the application of advanced radar techniques. It includes functional descriptions of radar used in the F-14, F-15 and F-16 fighter aircraft, long-range surveillance radar, battlefield surveillance and target acquisition radar, and early warning systems.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bellingham
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1000 colour diagrams and photographs
ISBN-13
978-0-8194-2850-9 (9780819428509)
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Content
Part 1 Overview of airborne radar: basic concepts; approaches to implementation; representative applications. Part 2 Essential groundwork: radio waves and alternating current signals; key to a non-mathematical understanding of radar; the ubiquitous decibel. Part 3 Radar fundamentals: choice of radio frequency; directivity and the antenna beam; pulsed operation; detection range; the range equation; pulse delay ranging; pulse compressions; FM ranging. Part 4 Pulse doppler radar: doppler effect; spectrum of pulsed signal; mysteries of pulsed spectrum unveiled; sensing doppler frequencies; how digital filters work; the digital filter bank and the FFT; measuring range rate. Part 5 Return from the ground: source and spectra of ground return; effect of range and doppler ambiguities on ground clutter; separating ground-moving targets from clutter. Part 6 Air-to-air operation: the crucial choice of PRF; low PRF operation; medium PRF operation; high PRF operation; automatic tracking. Part 7 High-resolution ground mapping and imaging: meeting high-resolution ground mapping requirements; principles of synthetic array radar; SAR design considerations; SAR operating modes. Part 8 Radar in electronic warfare: electronic countermeasure techniques; electronic counter countermeasures; electronic warfare intelligence functions. Part 9 Advanced concepts. Part 10 Representative radar systems.