Radar System Performance Modeling, Second Edition (Radar Library) - Softcover

Curry, G. Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580538169 ISBN 13: 9781580538169

Publisher: Artech House, 2004

Synopsis

Turn to this expanded second edition of an Artech House bestseller for the most current and comprehensive coverage of radar system performance analysis and system-level modeling. This revised edition features new material on airborne and space-based radar, radar tracking techniques, radar system design, and operational and performance issues. It also provides new detailed examples, problem sets and solutions, and a comprehensive self-test to evaluate your understanding. Featuring over 255 equations and more than 120 illustrations, this systematic reference offers you a clear understanding of the basics of radar design, operation and applications, including radar configurations, radar parameters, radar waveform characteristics, and functional radar models and their software representations. It provides you with fully developed models for radar detection, search modes, measurement and tracking, environmental effects, countermeasures and counter-countermeasures, and airborne and space-based radar. A final section includes examples that combine the various radar models together to solve practical radar problems.

About this title

Product Description

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Artech House
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580538169
• ISBN 13: 9781580538169
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 410