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(More customer reviews)It does not say so on the cover, but Barton points out in his Introduction that this book is actually the 3rd edition of a text, where the 2nd edition was published in 1988. The 3rd edition was motivated in no small part by advances in radar analysis and computing power since then.
As the book amply makes clear, radar analysis and modelling is very compute intensive. In 1988, some of the calculations might have necessitated one or more minicomputers. One attraction of the book is the lengthy set of nontrivial problems at the end of each chapter; which the reader is urged to tackle. Nowadays, these can be done on a personal computer, using some maths package. Hence the book's accompanying CD. However, instead of using Mathematica or Maple, Barton chose the rarer Mathsoft. The reason is that the intermediate steps are made available, so that you can easily modify these for your situations.
The radar applications in the text are heavily directed towards military usages. For historical reasons, and also because these tend to be the most technically demanding, in terms of rapid detection and identification. (See the enemy before he sees you.) With forays into Electronic Counter Measures and ECCM.
By the way, antenna design gets one lonely chapter. Perhaps somewhat cursory. But this subject is itself worthy of length monographs, and is not really the main topic here.
The level of discussion is clearly aimed at a engineer already in the field. A sophisticated, technically complex narrative. Showing as best as can be done on a declassified level, the limits of current analysis. A reader might reasonably ruminate that if this much can be revealed, what then is the true state of the art of military radar?
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A thorough update to the classic Modern Radar Systems Analysis, this reference is a comprehensive and cohesive introduction to radar systems design and performance estimation. It offers professionals the knowledge they need to specify, evaluate, or apply radar technology in civilian or military systems. This unique resource provides radar engineers with time-saving and effective techniques for their work in such defense-related applications as weapon systems design and electronic warfare. The book presents accurate detection range equations for realistically estimating radar performance in a variety of practical situations. As radar systems evolve, designers, engineers, and analysts can turn to this book again and again to calculate and evaluate systems performance to keep up with the latest advances in radar technology. CD-ROM Included! The accompanying disc contains example calculations, exercise problems, and analysis programs written in MathCad 11 and HTML.
