Radar Principles with Applications to Tracking Systems - Philip L. Bogler - Hardcover

This cohesive and comprehensive introduction to radar tracking theory and practice encompasses both background on frontend radar sensor processing as well as fundamentals of and recent developments in radar tracking. The focus throughout Radar Principles with Applications to Tracking Systems is on practice-demonstration of how functional objectives are traded off against sensor and processing constraints. Treatment of frontend processing includes traditional aspects of radar theory such as sensor technology, detection theory, signal processing algorithms, and waveform selection. This background material is particularly relevant to the designer of modern radar systems where the tracking logic often directs the frontend in order to optimize system performance. Further discussion presents aspects of estimation theory used in radar tracking and illustrates practical use of the theory by means of examples drawn from the fields of single- and multiple-target tracking. The necessary correlation logic is given in order to allow the estimation algorithms to operate on individual targets. Finally, there is state-of-the-art coverage of the evolving area of resource allocation and its application to the control of an electronically scanned array tracking system.Bogler, Philip L. is the author of 'Radar Principles with Applications to Tracking Systems - Philip L. Bogler - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780471501923 and ISBN 0471501921.