Tactical Persistent Surveillance Radar with Applications introduces
technologists to the essential elements of persistent surveillance of
tactical targets from both a hardware and software point of view, using
simple Mathcad, Excel and Basic examples with real data. It is based on
the type of surveillance done by drones like Scan Eagle, Predator,
Reaper, Global Hawk, and manned aircraft like U-2, ASTOR, and JSTARS as
well as spacecraft. The general topic is cellphone and datalink
intercept, ground moving target radar, synthetic aperture radar,
navigation, tracking, electronic scanning and cueing electro-optical
sensors for activity based surveillance.
Examples are taken from a wide range of technologies and techniques
including passive detection, radar detection, antenna monopulse, active
electronic scanned antennas (AESA), moving target tracking (MTT), motion
compensation, tactical target spectral characteristics, moving target
detection (MTI), space time adaptive processing (STAP), synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) imaging, change detection (CCD), and synthetic
monopulse.
Over 120 example applications programs are included in the appendices
and as downloads as well as over 100 SAR and GMTI raw IQ data files.
These allow the curious to experiment with their own parameters and
notions to achieve a greater understanding of the underlying behaviors.
Based on the author's 55-year experience in engineering design,
leadership, teaching and consulting, this book is an essential text for
researchers, advanced students and technologists working in radar and
related fields in computing and aerospace system design.
