| Preface | p. xiii |
| References | p. xv |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| Radar and Sonar | p. 1 |
| Summary | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 2 |
| The Active Radar or Sonar Signal | p. 4 |
| Physical Interpretation | p. 8 |
| Passive Listening | p. 10 |
| Optimum Reception in White Noise | p. 13 |
| Summary | p. 13 |
| Principle | p. 17 |
| Estimation of a Parameter | p. 18 |
| Simultaneous Estimation of Several Parameters | p. 19 |
| Optimum Detection | p. 20 |
| Optimum Receiver | p. 22 |
| Optimum Estimator | p. 22 |
| Optimum Detector | p. 25 |
| Estimation Performance: The Ambiguity Function | p. 28 |
| Detection Performance | p. 31 |
| Conclusion | p. 34 |
| References | p. 36 |
| Cramer-Rao Equality | p. 36 |
| Application to Radar | p. 39 |
| Summary | p. 39 |
| Doppler-Range Ambiguity | p. 45 |
| Definitions: Time, Duration, Frequency, and Bandwidth Modulation | p. 46 |
| Measurement of the Time Delay or of the Frequency of Signal | p. 48 |
| Simultaneous Measurement of the Time Delay and the Doppler Shift | p. 50 |
| Doppler-Range Ambiguity Function | p. 53 |
| Examples of Doppler-Range Ambiguity Functions | p. 54 |
| Gaussian Pulse | p. 55 |
| Pulse with Linear Frequency Modulation (Chirp) | p. 56 |
| Pulse Compression | p. 59 |
| Encoded Pulse Sequence | p. 60 |
| Pulse Train | p. 62 |
| Reception of a Pulse Train | p. 66 |
| Range and Velocity Ambiguities | p. 69 |
| Constant False Alarm Rate Detection | p. 70 |
| Radar Mapping: Synthetic Aperture Radar | p. 72 |
| Angular Location | p. 77 |
| Angle-Range-Doppler Optimum Receiver | p. 78 |
| Angular Tracking Sum Channel, Difference Channel | p. 82 |
| Radar Angle-Error Detection | p. 87 |
| Comments | p. 89 |
| Implementation | p. 90 |
| General Approach | p. 90 |
| Functional Design | p. 92 |
| Architecture Design | p. 92 |
| Hardware and Software Development | p. 93 |
| Systematic Signal Processing | p. 94 |
| References | p. 95 |
| Relation Between the Duration and Bandwidth of a Signal | p. 96 |
| Radar Range Equation | p. 97 |
| Thermal Noise | p. 97 |
| Signal-to-Noise Ratio | p. 98 |
| Performance | p. 100 |
| Spectral Purity | p. 101 |
| Phase and Amplitude Noise | p. 102 |
| Reception | p. 102 |
| Example: Pulse Radar with High Repetition Frequency | p. 105 |
| Application | p. 106 |
| References | p. 106 |
| Optimum Reception in Colored Noise | p. 107 |
| Summary | p. 107 |
| Introduction | p. 109 |
| Background | p. 109 |
| Method | p. 109 |
| Receiver Structure | p. 110 |
| Reception by Whitening | p. 110 |
| Reception by Subtraction of the Colored Part of the Noise | p. 114 |
| Application to Spurious Echoes (or Jammers) | p. 115 |
| Stationary Colored Noise and Infinite Observation Time | p. 118 |
| Whitening | p. 119 |
| Subtraction of the Colored Part of the Noise | p. 120 |
| Optimum Processing Gain | p. 122 |
| Discussion | p. 123 |
| Karhunen-Loeve Expansion | p. 124 |
| The Problem | p. 124 |
| Properties of the Integral Equation | p. 126 |
| Optimum Receiver in Colored Noise | p. 126 |
| Estimation of a Random Signal in the Presence of White Noise--Wiener-Hopf Equation | p. 129 |
| Adaptive Processing | p. 133 |
| Summary | p. 133 |
| Introduction | p. 139 |
| Adaptive Noise Suppression | p. 139 |
| Receiver Structure | p. 139 |
| Adaptive Filtering Using a Transversal Filter | p. 144 |
| Convergence | p. 148 |
| Application | p. 150 |
| Adaptive Whitening | p. 152 |
| Receiver Structure | p. 152 |
| Adaptive Whitening by Lattice Filter | p. 157 |
| Application | p. 157 |
| Sensor Arrays | p. 160 |
| Problem Statement | p. 160 |
| Application to Jammer Cancellation | p. 163 |
| Adaptive Digital Beamforming with Noise-Only Reference | p. 169 |
| Processing Without Noise-Only Reference | p. 170 |
| Radar Angle-Error Measurement in the Presence of External Interference | p. 172 |
| Capon's Adaptive Processing by Constrained Minimization | p. 174 |
| Application: Space-Time Processing | p. 177 |
| Equivalence Between Adaptive Suppression and Constrained Minimization | p. 180 |
| Calibration | p. 181 |
| Coherent Targets | p. 186 |
| Sidelobe Blanking | p. 189 |
| Discussion | p. 190 |
| Passive Listening | p. 191 |
| Problem Statement | p. 191 |
| Maximum Likelihood (Signal + Noise) | p. 193 |
| Spectral Decomposition (Multiple Sources + Noise): MUSIC | p. 194 |
| Comparison | p. 197 |
| Generalized Correlation | p. 200 |
| Discussion | p. 202 |
| Conclusion | p. 202 |
| References | p. 204 |
| Matrix Inversion Lemma | p. 205 |
| Target and Background Signatures | p. 207 |
| Summary | p. 207 |
| Radar or Sonar Reflection | p. 212 |
| Polarization | p. 213 |
| RCS | p. 217 |
| Simple Examples | p. 219 |
| Sonar Reflection | p. 223 |
| Modeling of Nondeformable Targets | p. 224 |
| Analytical Models of RCS or Sonar Target Strength | p. 224 |
| Multiple Scatterers Target Model: Radar Holography | p. 242 |
| Stochastic Models | p. 248 |
| Conclusion | p. 252 |
| Examples: Impulse Response and Transverse Response | p. 253 |
| Deformable Targets | p. 258 |
| Helicopter Signatures | p. 258 |
| Jet Engine Signatures | p. 260 |
| Vehicle Signatures | p. 261 |
| Background Signatures | p. 263 |
| Direct Echoes from Backgrounds: Clutter | p. 264 |
| Multiple Paths | p. 269 |
| Propagation | p. 272 |
| Passive Listening | p. 273 |
| References | p. 275 |
| A Multifrequency Ground Clutter Model | p. 277 |
| Weibull Ground Clutter | p. 277 |
| Three-Component Ground Clutter Spectrum | p. 278 |
| Signature Adapted Processing | p. 283 |
| Summary | p. 283 |
| Radar Target Recognition | p. 284 |
| Tracking of Extended Targets | p. 286 |
| Detection in Clutter | p. 286 |
| Low-Frequency Radars | p. 288 |
| Wideband Radars | p. 288 |
| Passive Systems | p. 289 |
| Objectives | p. 289 |
| Radar Target Recognition | p. 290 |
| Approaches | p. 290 |
| Radar Imaging of Moving Targets: Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar | p. 290 |
| Automatic Classification of Targets | p. 292 |
| Extended Target Tracking | p. 306 |
| The Glint Phenomenon | p. 306 |
| Glint Modeling | p. 315 |
| Antiglint Processing | p. 317 |
| Target Extraction from Clutter | p. 319 |
| Use of Frequency Agility After Detection | p. 320 |
| Use of Polarimetry | p. 323 |
| Ambiguous Airborne Radars | p. 330 |
| Airborne Detection of Slow Moving Targets | p. 337 |
| Low-Frequency Radars | p. 347 |
| Scope | p. 347 |
| Targets | p. 347 |
| Propagation | p. 353 |
| Clutter and Interference | p. 358 |
| Target Recognition | p. 359 |
| System Aspects | p. 362 |
| Wideband Radars | p. 365 |
| Wideband and Ultra-Wideband Radars | p. 366 |
| Wideband Radar Processing | p. 368 |
| Periodic Signal Passive Listening | p. 371 |
| References | p. 375 |
| Variance of a Rayleigh Variable at the Output of a Logarithmic Amplifier | p. 377 |
| Probability Density of the Instantaneous Frequency of a Gaussian Random Process | p. 378 |
| About the Author | p. 381 |
| Index | p. 383 |
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