To meet the need for a compendium of radar information essential for design and performance analysis a book should combine elements of both a radar text and a handbook. It should be comprehensive to serve as a complete radar reference yet compact enough to fit on an engineer's desk or travel with them. It should contain the radar principles, data, and equations most useful to practicing radar engineers and also material to help those who are not radar experts understand and use the information.
This is that book. It contains basic principles of radar design and analysis, characteristics of the major radar components, key radar equations, and tables and charts with the most-used radar performance data. The reader can go directly to the topic of interest, where references are provided to other helpful sections. It is intended as a reference for radar and aerospace engineers and system analysts and provides a handy desktop source as well as an essential traveling companion.
This second edition of Radar Essentials updates and expands on the material in the first edition and adds discussion of new radar techniques developed since the first edition was published.
This updated second edition provides a compendium of radar information essentials for design and performance analysis. It contains basic principles of radar design and analysis, characteristics of the major radar components, key radar equations, and tables and charts with the most-used radar performance data.
Chapter 1: Radar Basics
Chapter 2: Radar Subsystems
Chapter 3: Radar Performance
Chapter 4: Radar Environment
Chapter 5: Radar Techniques
Chapter 6: Summary
G. Richard (Dick) Curry is a consultant in radar system applications with more than 50 years' experience in radar system analysis, simulation, design, and testing, as well as military R&D planning, technology assessment, and management. He received his MS in electrical engineering from MIT.
