Radar Handbook

by Merrill I. Skolnik

Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the advances made in radar over the past two decades, this one-of-a-kind reference offers radar engineers all the fundamental and advanced information they need in day-to-day work. This completely new Second Edition features material digital techniques, the Doppler filter bank, the analog SAW dispersive delay line, 3-dimensional radar, the ultra-low sidelobe antenna, semi-active radar, the adaptive antenna, the use of computers, and much more. Readers will find several lucid chapters on all major sub-systems of a radar, such as the receiver, transmitter, solid-state transmitters, reflector antennas, phased array antennas, data processing, ECCM, and pulse compression. There are discussions of the target cross section and the nature of the radar echoes from the ground and the sea. A wide range of material covers various types of radar systems, including CW and FM-CW, MTI, AMTI, pulse Doppler, tracking, missile guidance, height finding and 3D, and synthetic aperture radar. The Handbook also examines three specialized examples of radar that have their own unique radar in space, meteorological (weather) radar, and HF over-the-horizon radar.

1200 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1970

Reviews

[Nicola · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a great reference book, but there are better options if you're new to radar engineering. The third edition is considerably different than the second edition. Both are useful, but if you have to choose one or the other, the third edition is more up-to-date.