Radar System Performance Modeling (Artech House Radar Library Series) by G. Richard Curry

From the Publisher

Radar’s ever-expanding role in the modern world has spawned a demand for professionals well-versed in the latest system-level analysis and performance modeling techniques. This expanded second edition of an Artech House bestseller helps engineers, mathematicians, and programmers answer the call, by providing the clearest presentation of radar system principles and system-level modeling procedures available. It serves as both a reference and a text, and features new material on airborne and space-based radar, radar tracking techniques, radar system design, and operational and performance issues. It also provides detailed examples, problem sets and solutions, and a comprehensive self-test. Extensive references, bibliographies, and over 100 illustrations help make this work an indispensable resource for radar specialists and non-specialists alike.

CD-ROM Included! Provides custom radar functions and equations that let practitioners calculate the radar performance parameters covered by the book in Excel worksheets.

Market

Radar system analysts; modelers and programmers involved in simulating the performance of radar in systems; designers and engineers; as well as university students in related courses.

Contents

Preface. Introduction. Radar Configurations. Radar Analysis Parameters. Radar Waveforms. The Radar Equation. Radar Detection. Radar Search Modes. Radar Measurement and Tracking. Environment and Mitigation Techniques. Radar Countermeasures and Counter-Countermeasures. Airborne and Space-Based Radar Issues. Radar Performance Modeling Techniques and Examples. Appendixes.

About the Author

G. Richard Curry is a consultant in radar systems applications with nearly 50 years of experience in radar system analysis and design and military R&D planning, technology assessment, and management. His career has included positions with Science Applications International Corporation, General Research Corporation, Raytheon, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He received his M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT.

Booknews

Based on his own career analyzing radars as part of surveillance, weapons, and traffic control systems, Curry assembles those models for whole-system analysis that he has found most useful in various situations. The key models are coded as Visual Basic for Applications software functions that can be used for radar analysis in Excel workbooks, contained on the 3.5<"> disk. He has simplified some of the models, and tried to indicate where, but reminds readers that they need to be modified for specific applications anyway. He does not expect readers to be radar experts, but to have a general engineering and mathematical background. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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