Foliage Penetration Radar: Detection and characterisation of objects under trees (Radar, Sonar and Navigation) - Hardcover

Davis, Mark E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1891121006 ISBN 13: 9781891121005

Publisher: SciTech Publishing Inc, 2011

Synopsis

This book covers all aspects of foliage penetration (FOPEN) radar, concentrating on both airborne military radar systems as well as earth resource mapping radars. It is the first concise and thorough treatment of FOPEN, covering the results of a decade-long investment by DARPA in characterizing foliage and earth surface with ultrawideband UHF and VHF synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Comparisons of the technologies for radar design and signal processing are presented, as are specific design approaches for transmitter design for operation in a dense radio frequency spectrum. Adaptive processing to remove the effects of radio and television signals from the system are also covered. In 10 years, FOPEN systems will find use in crop monitoring, land mine remediation, and creating digital maps under trees. This book will be the foundation for continued research for years to come both for radar and systems engineers in defense and earth resources companies. Government researchers, program managers and planners who have an interest in the unique capabilities of this radar technology, as well as university staff and faculty teaching radar and signal processing will find this book a critical part of their learning for years to come.

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About the Author

Dr. Mark E. Davis has over 40 years experience in radar technology and systems development. He has held senior management positions in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Air Force Research Laboratory, and General Electric Aerospace. At DARPA, he was the government program manager on both the foliage penetration radar advanced development program and the GeoSAR foliage penetration mapping radar. He is a Fellow of both the IEEE and Military Sensing Symposia. Dr. Davis has published well over 100 papers in journals and proceedings.

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Key Features

* Ultrawideband waveform design and analysis including: methods for generating ultrawideband signals that do not interfere with emergency or flight safety frequencies; adaptive processing to reconstruct signals in a dense radio frequency interference environment.

* Characteristics of clutter, foliage scattering, and propagation that affect the detection and characterization of vehicles, buildings and terrain features.

* Specific studies into the benefits of: polarization for reduction of false alarms and characterizing vehicles under foliage; terrain features for land use cover characterization; generation of digital elevation maps for "bare earth" under the trees.

* Image formation processing with an emphasis on use of real time high performance processing, change detection and automatic target detection and classification.

* History of FOPEN with details of early systems that have only recently been released.

* Advanced topics that provide additional uses of FOPEN systems including: simultaneous SAR and GMTI operation; bistatic SAR utilizing a FOPEN GMTI radar's waveform.

Edition details

• Publisher: SciTech Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1891121006
• ISBN 13: 9781891121005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 368