Radar essentials: a concise handbook for radar design and performance analysis : principles, equations, data

This contains basic principles of radar design and analysis, characteristics of the major radar components, key radar equations, and tables and charts with the most-used radar performance data. The reader can go directly to the topic of interest, where references are provided to other helpful sections. It is intended as a reference for radar and aerospace engineers and system analysts, and provides a handy desktop source as well as an essential traveling companion.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Radar Basics -- 1.1. Radar Concept and Operation -- 1.2. Radar Functions -- 1.3. Types of Radars -- 1.4. Frequency Bands -- 1.5. Military Nomenclature -- 1.6. Radar Configurations -- 2. Radar Subsystems -- 2.1. Antennas -- 2.2. Transmitters -- 2.3. Receivers -- 2.4. Transmit/Receive Modules -- 2.5. Signal and Data Processing -- 3. Radar Performance -- 3.1. Radar Cross Section (RCS) -- 3.2. Signal-to-Noise Ratio -- 3.3. Detection -- 3.4. Search -- 3.5. Measurement -- 3.6. Tracking -- 4. Radar Environment -- 4.1. Atmospheric Losses -- 4.2. Rain Loss -- 4.3. Atmospheric Refraction -- 4.4. Terrain Masking and Multipath -- 4.5. Radar Clutter -- 4.6. Ionospheric Effects -- 4.7. Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) -- 5. Radar Techniques -- 5.1. Waveforms -- 5.2. Moving Target Indication (MTI) and Displaced Phase-Center Array (DPCA) -- 5.3. Pulse Doppler and Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) -- 5.4. Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) -- 5.5. Classification, Discrimination, and Target Identification -- 6.Computation Aids -- 6.1. Units and Conversion Factors -- 6.2. Constants -- 6.3. Decibels.