This classic text and reference has been updated to reflect the latest developments in the field.

Retaining clear and colorful graphics with concise captions, an open layout, simple clear descriptions, "Blue Panels" to present details a reader can skip on a first reading, "sidenotes" to convey caveats and reviewer comments, and a wealth of real-world examples and photographs, the book is an ideal introduction to the subject for nonspecialists: engineers, technicians, pilots, and aerospace industry marketing, public relations, and customer support personnel.

The first chapters focusing on radar fundamentals are also applicable to ground and sea radar. The next move into air-to-air and air-to-ground operation. Later chapters cover advanced concepts.

Coverage includes:

• Both passive and active electronically steered array antennas (ESAs)
• Antenna RCS reduction for stealth
• Problems of grating and Bragg lobes and means of avoiding them
• Multi-frequency operation
• Long coherent-integration-time operation
• Alert Confirm detection
• Bistatic target detection
• Space-time adaptive processing
• True-time-delay beam steering
• 3-D SAR mapping
• Advanced waveforms for exploiting the ESAs' versatility
• Advanced approaches to mode control
• Low probability of intercept (LPI) techniques
• Plus much more!

Introduction to Airborne Radar is ideal for training courses and self study.

Contents

1. Overview of Airborne Radar
   1. Basic Concepts
   2. Approaches to Implementation
   3. Representative Applications

2. Essential Groundwork
   4. Radio Waves and Alternating Current Signals
   5. Key to a Nonmathematical Understanding of Radar
   6. The Ubiquitous Decibel

3. Radar Fundamentals
   7. Choice of Radio Frequency
   8. Directivity and the Antenna Beam
   9. Pulsed Operation
   10. Detection Range
   11. The Range Equation, What It Does and Doesn't Tell Us
   12. Pulse Delay Ranging
   13. Pulse Compressions
   14. FM Ranging

4. Pulse Doppler Radar
   15. Doppler Effect
   16. Spectrum of Pulsed Signal
   17. Mysteries of Pulsed Spectrum Unveiled
   18. Sensing Doppler Frequencies
   19. How Digital Filters Work
   20. The Digital Filter Bank and the FFT
   21. Measuring Range Rate

5. Return from the Ground
   22. Sources and Spectra of Ground Return
   23. Effect of Range and Doppler Ambiguities on Ground Clutter
   24. Separating Ground-Moving Targets from Clutter

6. Air-to-Air Operation
   25. The Crucial Choice of PRF
   26. Low PRF Operation
   27. Medium PRF Operation
   28. High PRF Operation
   29. Automatic Tracking

7. High-Resolution Ground Mapping and Imaging
   30. Meeting High-Resolution Ground Mapping Requirements
   31. Principles of Synthetic Array (Aperture) Radar
   32. SAR Design Considerations
   33. SAR Operating Modes

8. Radar in Electronic Warfare
   34. Electronic Countermeasure (ECM) Techniques
   35. Electronic Counter Counter-measures (ECCM)
   36. Electronic Warfare Intelligence Functions

9. Advanced Concepts
   37. Electronically-Steered Array Antennas (ESAs)
   38. ESA Design
   39. Antenna RCS Reduction
   40. Advanced Radar Techniques
   41. Advanced Waveforms and Mode Control
   42. Low Probability of Intercept (LPI)
   43. Advanced Processor Architecture

10. Representative Radar Systems
    • Reconnaissance and Surveillance
    • Fighter and Attack
    • Strategic Bombing
    • Attack Helicopter
    • Transport/Tanker Navigation
    • Civil Applications

Appendix:
Rules of Thumb
Reference Data

Index

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