Radar Principles

Rating:
Summary: Great Introductory Radar Book
Review: In my opinion, this book offers a great introduction of Radar. It describes in detail the Radar equation: how distance between target & receiver, radar cross section, antenna gains, and path losses affect the received signal strength. The book has an entire chapter devoted to antennas including how to calculate antenna gain, efficieny, and power distribution. In that chapter, Peebles shows how to calculate antenna parameters for both rectangular and circular aperature antennas as well as antenna arrays.

In addition to antennas, it has an entire chapter devoted to radar cross sections. Peebles shows how radar cross sections can be derived, and gives several detailed examples for simple objects such as spheres. He also gives examples for radar cross sections for area targets such as land and sea.

Because radar is such a large topic, this book does not cover everything. Peebles does cover other elementary subjects such as radar detection and resolution and Doppler radar, but it does not get into synthetic aperature radar. However, it is still a great book for learning the basics of Radar.

Rating:
Summary: Great Introductory Radar Book
Review: In my opinion, this book offers a great introduction of Radar. It describes in detail the Radar equation: how distance between target & receiver, radar cross section, antenna gains, and path losses affect the received signal strength. The book has an entire chapter devoted to antennas including how to calculate antenna gain, efficieny, and power distribution. In that chapter, Peebles shows how to calculate antenna parameters for both rectangular and circular aperature antennas as well as antenna arrays.

In addition to antennas, it has an entire chapter devoted to radar cross sections. Peebles shows how radar cross sections can be derived, and gives several detailed examples for simple objects such as spheres. He also gives examples for radar cross sections for area targets such as land and sea.

Because radar is such a large topic, this book does not cover everything. Peebles does cover other elementary subjects such as radar detection and resolution and Doppler radar, but it does not get into synthetic aperature radar. However, it is still a great book for learning the basics of Radar.