Principles of Modern Radar: Basic Principles Illustrated Edition

After graduating with an BS in EE from Va-Tech, I managed to land a job involving radars. Coming in fresh, I decided to learn more about the subject at hand by investing some of my personal time on a book. I ran across this book after reading a fair amount of reviews.This particular book contains a lot of information involving radar operations. It seems some great minds went into creating this exceptional book - all of them from GTRI. Even with an undergraduate level of understanding, I am able to pick up on all of the material covered. I haven't picked up any other material involving antenna theory or RF theory either.The only downside to the book seems to be that there isn't any information involving most of the common scan types. It would have been great if I could've learned about Raster scans or Sector scans, for instance, without having to look elsewhere. Even so, I've managed to learn a great deal without starting a library yet and as such, I give this book five stars.

This is a first look at the concepts and theory of operation of modern radar systems. I got this book to supplement some of the classics by Skolnik, Barton, Blake, et. al., mostly because many of these, though still valuable in their own right, were written before modern techniques based on current hardware became prevalent. You will find all the basic concepts discussed here, though not at enough length to really design or build anything. Radar is a very extensive field, and the references listed at the end of each chapter provide plenty of additional understanding. There are entire books devoted to antenna design, transmitter architecture, receiver design, signal processing, clutter, arrays, etc. The level of mathematical rigor should be comprehensible to anyone with a technical, scientific, or engineering background. No single radar book has all the answers, but this is a good place to start.

I have not finished reading this book, but so far of what I have read, it is excellent for someone new to the topic. For me, there appears to be sufficient technical rigor to be useful for engineering analysis. The book is very up to date with its graphics and topics discussed, without necessarily ignoring legacy topics. This text is probably not completely ideal for someone well versed in the topic, but might make a good "all 'rounder" type of reference. Deeper topics are covered in other textbooks of this nature.

An excellent introduction to fundamentals of radar and radar systems engineering. Each chapter is clearly written by an expert in the particular subject subject being discussed. Each chapter concludes with additional references and problems for the reader. The problems are a nice tool to test and extend the reader's understanding of the material. This is definitely the best radar textbook on the market today.

This book provide a comprehensive overview that provide the system perspective for the Radar System Engineer. It has a lot of references , therefore if have to into the depth you can find the material.I still believe that Skolnik book should also be used along with this and Mahafiza Radar book that is matlab based is also a very good supplement.

Book came fast, new and in great condition. Happy with my purchase.

Spine fell apart withing the first few months...

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