Radar Techniques Using Array Antennas (2^nd Ed.)

An updated version of the book published in 2001, this second edition includes new material on compressed sensing and its possible application to beam forming, results for phase-only-nulling against jammers, descriptions of further algorithms for superresolution and the reconnaissance of other radiating sources. This book also features a new chapter on radar operation by passive coherent location and the extension and explanation of the basic ideas for MIMO-radar.

In addition to the coverage of antennas, array signal processing, adaptive digital beamforming and adaptive monopulse, several modern systems are described including space-time adaptive processing (STAP), moving target detection using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and several other experimental phased array radar systems.

Topics include:

• array signal processing

• array calibration

• adaptive digital beamforming

• adaptive monopulse

• superresolution

• pulse compression

• sequential detection,

• target detection with long pulse series

• space-time adaptive processing (STAP)

• synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

• target imaging

• energy management

• system parameter relations.

The discussed methods are confirmed by simulation studies and experimental array systems developed by the authors team at FGAN, now Fraunhofer.

• Signal representation and mathematical tools

• Statistical signal theory

• Array antennas

• Beamforming

• Sampling and digitisation of signals

• Pulse compression with polyphase codes

• Detection of targets by a pulse series

• Sequential detection

• Adaptive beamforming for jammer suppression

• Monopulse direction estimation

• Array processing for super-resolution in angle

• Space–time adaptive processing

• Synthetic aperture radar with active phased arrays

• Inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR)

• Target classification

• Experimental phased-array system ELRA

• Floodlight and MIMO radar concepts

• System and parameter considerations

• Passive radar