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Citation
Rigelsford, J. (2003), "Principles of Radar and Sonar Signal Processing", Sensor Review, Vol. 23 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/sr.2003.08723bae.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
Principles of Radar and Sonar Signal Processing
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Francois Le ChevalierArtech House2002424 pp.ISBN 1-58053-338-8£76.00
Keywords: Radar, Sonar, Signal processing
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the latest developments in conventional and adaptive signal processing theory for radar and sonar systems. It comprises seven chapters, with each one starting with a simple discussion of the topics to be covered, underlying principles and reference examples.
Chapter 1, Radar and Sonar, discusses the active radar and sonar signals, physical interpretation and passive listening, while Optimum Reception in White Noise is addressed in chapter 2. This section includes the optimum receiver and an appendix describing the Cramer-Rao Inequality.
Chapter 3, Application to Radar, presents Doppler-range ambiguity functions, radar mapping and synthetic aperture radar, angular location and signal processing implementation. These appendices are included which address the relation between duration and bandwidth, the radar range equation and spectral purity. Receiver structure, application to spurious echoes, stationary coloured noise and infinite observation time are amongst the topics discussed in chapter 4. Optimum Reception in Coloured Noise. Appendices address Karhunen-Loeve expansion, the optimum receiver for coloured noise, and estimation of a random signal. Chapters 5, Adaptive Processing, presents topics including adaptive noise suppression, adaptive whitening, sensor arrays and passive listening.
The final two chapters cover Target and Background Signatures and Signature Adapted Processing, respectively. Topics presented include radar or sonar reflection, modelling of non-deformable targets and deformable targets, background signatures, radar target recognition, extended target tracking, target extraction from clutter, low frequency radars, wideband radars, and periodic signal passive listening. The appendices address a multi-frequency ground clutter model, variance of a Rayleigh variable at the output, and probability density of the instantaneous frequency.
"Principles of Radar and Sonar Signal Processing" will be of interest to students, researchers and professional engineers working with or interested in, radar or sonar systems. It provides detailed descriptions of new and developing technologies for radar signal processing.