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The goal of this book is to provide in-depth coverage of fundamental topics in
radar signal processing from a digital signal processing perspective. The tech-
niques of linear systems, filtering, sampling, and Fourier analysis techniques
and interpretations are used throughout to provide a modern and unified tuto-
rial approach. The coverage includes a full range of the basic signal processing
techniques on which all radar systems rely, including topics such as target and
interference models, matched filtering, waveform design, Doppler processing,
and threshold detection and CFAR. In addition, introductions are provided to
the advanced topics of synthetic aperture imaging and space-time adaptive
array processing.
This book is intended to fill what I perceive to be a void in the technical
literature on radar. The literature offers a number of excellent books on radar
systems in general. Recent examples include the books by Edde and Skolnik.
These books provide an excellent qualitative and descriptive introduction to
radar systems as a whole and are recommended as first texts for anyone inter-
ested in the topic. The text by Peebles provides greater quantitative depth on
basic radar systems and some signal processing topics. However, the goal of this
text is to delve more deeply into the signal processing aspects of radar in partic-
ular. A number of good quality texts on advanced topics in radar signal process-
ing, principally synthetic aperture imaging and space-time adaptive processing,
have appeared in recent years. Synthetic aperture imaging examples include
the books by Jakowatz et al., Carrara et al., Soumekh, and dimming and
Wong; space-time adaptive processing examples include the books by Klemm
and Guerci. The book by Sullivan spans both areas. However, there is a sub-
stantial gap between the qualitative systems books and the advanced signal
processing books. Specifically, I believe the radar community lacks a current
text providing a concise, unified, and modern treatment of the basic radar sig-
nal processing techniques on which these more advanced methods are founded:
signal modeling, matched filtering and pulse compression, Doppler processing,
and threshold detection. It is my hope that this book will fill that gap. |
