Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing

Book Description

Fully updated and expanded, Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing, Second Edition, offers comprehensive coverage of the basic digital signal processing techniques and technologies on which virtually all modern radar systems rely, including target and interference models, matched filtering, waveform design, Doppler processing, threshold detection, and measurement accuracy.

The methods and interpretations of linear systems, filtering, sampling, and Fourier analysis are used throughout to provide a unified tutorial approach. End-of-chapter problems reinforce the material covered. Developed over many years of academic and professional education, this authoritative resource is ideal for graduate students as well as practicing engineers.

The most complete, current guide to the signal processing techniques essential to advanced radar systems

Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing, Second Edition, covers:

• Introduction to radar systems
• Signal models
• Pulsed radar data acquisition
• Radar waveforms
• Doppler processing
• Detection fundamentals
• Measurements and tracking
• Introduction to synthetic aperture imaging
• Introduction to beamforming and space-time adaptive processing

About the Author

Mark A. Richards, Ph.D., is Principal Research Engineer and Adjunct Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Georgia Institute of Technology. He is engaged in academic and continuing education teaching and course development in the fields of digital signal processing and radar signal processing. Prior to joining ECE, Dr. Richards was a Principal Research Engineer and Chief of the Radar Systems Division and Head of the Signal Processing Branch in the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory of the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

Customer Reviews

It is a good book for beginners who want to learn the fundamentals of radar signal processing. Derivations are clear and easy to understand. However, if you need an in-depth analysis o the subject you should try other resources.

This text definitely fills a void in the unclassified radar textbook literature. Perhaps if one looks in a library for some out-of-print titles such as those from the MIT Radiation Laboratory Series, one might find similar coverage. However this text is "in print", modern, and up-to-date.

Chapter 2 deals with some basic topics about radar signals, and Chapter 3 discusses sampling and quantization topics, which are vital in the modern DSP era. Chapter 4 discusses Matched Filters and the signal processing of a number of modulated radar waveforms. Chapter 5 discusses Doppler processing, which is an important modern topic.

Chapter 6 discusses Radar Threshold Detection. However, if one truly wants to grasp the detection problem, one ought to read Volumes I & III of Van Trees, the first covering the basics of Detection and Estimation Theory, and the latter covering the D&E problem for Radar with some in depth mathematics.

Chapters 7,8, and 9 of Richards proceed to deal with the advanced topics of CFAR Detection, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), beamforming, and Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP). All in all, starting with the basics, this book by Richards is a pretty thorough coverage of Radar Signal Processing.

If one wants to understand radar from a DSP perspective, first read Skolnik's "Introduction To Radar Systems" to get a basic understanding of how radar works. Then read this book by Richards to understand radar DSP.

I have enjoyed this book enormously throughout. While there are a fairly large number of radar books available, this is the first that I have read that lays out the signal processing aspects of radar in such a coherent, pedagogically sound, and self-contained way, generally from first principles. For example, the exposition of slow and fast time processing throughout the book was very illuminating, as was the connection drawn between the Neyman-Pearson receiver and the matched filter. The only other text I have seen that combines such clarity of vision, readability, and rigor is the book by Peebles, which unfortunately has little material on digital radar signal processing.