Radar Detection

This book presents a comprehensive tutorial exposition of radar detection usingthe methods and techniques of mathematical statistics. The material presentedis a... » 

This book presents a comprehensive tutorial exposition of radar detection usingthe methods and techniques of mathematical statistics. The material presentedis as current and useful to todays engineers as when the book was firstpublished by PrenticeHall in 1968 and then republished by Artech House in1980.The book is divided into six parts. Part I is introductory and describes thenature of the radar detection problem. Part II reviews the mathematical toolsnecessary for a study of detection theory. Part III contains tutorialexpositions in a radar context of the classical signaltonoise and aposteriori theories both of which have played important roles in the evolutionof modern radar.The unifying theme of the book is provided by statistical decision theoryintroduced in the last chapter of Part III which provides the framework forthe chapters that follow. The first three chapters of Part IV contain a unifiedtutorial exposition of single and multiple hit detection theory. The last twochapters are respectively devoted to the use of the radar equation and adiscussion of cumulative detection probability. The latter includes a procedurefor minimizing the poweraperture product of a search radar. The performance ofnearoptimum multiple hit detection strategies are considered in Part V. Theseinclude binary and pulse train detection strategies.The first chapter in Part VI applies sequential detection theory to the radardetection problem. It includes the Marcus and Swerling test strategy and a twostep approximation to sequential detection. The second chapter contains thedevelopment of Bayes decision rules and Bayes receivers for optimizing thedetection ofmultiple targets with unknown parameters such as range velocityangle etc. «