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A Summer Bright and Terrible

Winston Churchill, Lord Dowding, Radar, and the Impossible Triumph of the Battle of Britain

by David E. Fisher ...

Part military history, part science narrative, part biography, this is a fascinating look at the Battle of Britain and Lord Hugh Downing—a pivotal but oft-overlooked figure in WW2 history.Lord Hugh Dowding, Air Chief Marshall of the Royal Air Force, Head of Fighter Command, First Baron of Bentley Priory, lived in the grip of unseen spirits. In thrall of the supernatural, he talked to the ghosts of ... Read more

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Part military history, part science narrative, part biography, this is a fascinating look at the Battle of Britain and Lord Hugh Downing—a pivotal but oft-overlooked figure in WW2 history.Lord Hugh Dowding, Air Chief Marshall of the Royal Air Force, Head of Fighter Command, First Baron of Bentley Priory, lived in the grip of unseen spirits. In thrall of the supernatural, he talked to the ghosts of
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Pieces of the Action

by Vannevar Bush ...

An inside account of one of the most innovative R&D ecosystems of the 20th century, from the man who was at the center of it all.Over a 60-year career in public affairs, Vannevar Bush—engineer, inventor, educator, and public face of government-funded science—sought to eliminate roadblocks to innovation in science and technology. In Pieces of the Action, a collection of memoir-essays, he reflects ... Read more

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An inside account of one of the most innovative R&D ecosystems of the 20th century, from the man who was at the center of it all.Over a 60-year career in public affairs, Vannevar Bush—engineer, inventor, educator, and public face of government-funded science—sought to eliminate roadblocks to innovation in science and technology. In Pieces of the Action, a collection of memoir-essays, he reflects
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The History of Air Intercept Radar & the British Nightfighter 1935–1959

by Ian White ...

This detailed history of Air Intercept radar traces the development of this vital military technology with the Royal Air Force during WWII.In the years after World War I, the United Kingdom was desperate to develop some form of protection from an enemy air strike. As early as 1923, the British Army had devised "sound mirrors" that could detect aircraft up to twelve miles away. This technical ... Read more

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This detailed history of Air Intercept radar traces the development of this vital military technology with the Royal Air Force during WWII.In the years after World War I, the United Kingdom was desperate to develop some form of protection from an enemy air strike. As early as 1923, the British Army had devised "sound mirrors" that could detect aircraft up to twelve miles away. This technical
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Radar Networks

by Hai Deng, Zhe Geng ...

Radar networks are increasingly regarded as an efficient approach to enhancing radar capabilities in the face of popular anti-radar techniques and hostile operating environments. Reader-friendly and self-contained, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest radar networking technologies. The text addresses basic, relevant aspects of radar signal processing and statistical theories, ... Read more

$67.99 USD

Radar networks are increasingly regarded as an efficient approach to enhancing radar capabilities in the face of popular anti-radar techniques and hostile operating environments. Reader-friendly and self-contained, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest radar networking technologies. The text addresses basic, relevant aspects of radar signal processing and statistical theories,
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Signal Processing in Radar Systems

by Vyacheslav Tuzlukov ...

An essential task in radar systems is to find an appropriate solution to the problems related to robust signal processing and the definition of signal parameters. Signal Processing in Radar Systems addresses robust signal processing problems in complex radar systems and digital signal processing subsystems. It also tackles the important issue of defining signal parameters.The book presents ... Read more

$145.99 USD

An essential task in radar systems is to find an appropriate solution to the problems related to robust signal processing and the definition of signal parameters. Signal Processing in Radar Systems addresses robust signal processing problems in complex radar systems and digital signal processing subsystems. It also tackles the important issue of defining signal parameters.The book presents
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High-Resolution and Robust Signal Processing

Edited by Yingbo Hua, Alex Gershman, Qi Cheng ...

Series series Signal Processing and Communications
High-Resolution and Robust Signal Processing describes key methodological and theoretical advances achieved in this domain over the last twenty years, placing emphasis on modern developments and recent research pursuits. Applications-grounded, this sophisticated resource links theoretical background with high-resolution methods used in wireless communications, brain signal analysis, and space-time ... Read more

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High-Resolution and Robust Signal Processing describes key methodological and theoretical advances achieved in this domain over the last twenty years, placing emphasis on modern developments and recent research pursuits. Applications-grounded, this sophisticated resource links theoretical background with high-resolution methods used in wireless communications, brain signal analysis, and space-time
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Text Book of SATELLITE COMMUNICATION

For BE/B.TECH/BCA/MCA/ M.TECH/Diploma/B.Sc/M.Sc/MA/ BA/Competitive Exams & Knowledge Seekers

by Na.VIKRAMAN ...

Series Book 14 - ECE
This book has been written for the Medical/Pharmacy/Nursing/ME/M.TECH/BE/B.Tech students of All University with latest syllabus for ECE, EEE, CSE, IT, Mechanical, Bio Medical, Bio Tech, BCA, MCA and All B.Sc Department Students.The basic aim of this book is to provide a basic knowledge in Satellite Communication.Satellite Communication Syllabus students of degree, diploma & AMIE courses and a ... Read more

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This book has been written for the Medical/Pharmacy/Nursing/ME/M.TECH/BE/B.Tech students of All University with latest syllabus for ECE, EEE, CSE, IT, Mechanical, Bio Medical, Bio Tech, BCA, MCA and All B.Sc Department Students.The basic aim of this book is to provide a basic knowledge in Satellite Communication.Satellite Communication Syllabus students of degree, diploma & AMIE courses and a
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Moon-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar

A Signal Processing Prospect

by Zhen Xu, Kun-Shan Chen ...

Series series SAR Remote Sensing
Lunar explorations have received increasing attention in recent years with tremendous application values, including using the Moon as a remote sensing platform for Earth observation. As an active sensor, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can detect changes in the atmosphere, terrain, and ocean. Moon-based SAR, complementary to the spaceborne SAR systems, expands our capabilities of watching and ... Read more

$84.99 USD

Lunar explorations have received increasing attention in recent years with tremendous application values, including using the Moon as a remote sensing platform for Earth observation. As an active sensor, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can detect changes in the atmosphere, terrain, and ocean. Moon-based SAR, complementary to the spaceborne SAR systems, expands our capabilities of watching and
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Cooperative Localization and Navigation

Theory, Research, and Practice

Edited by Chao Gao, Guorong Zhao, Hassen Fourati ...

This book captures the latest results and techniques for cooperative localization and navigation drawn from a broad array of disciplines. It provides the reader with a generic and comprehensive view of modeling, strategies, and state estimation methodologies in that fields. It discusses the most recent research and novel advances in that direction, exploring the design of algorithms and ... Read more

$72.99 USD

This book captures the latest results and techniques for cooperative localization and navigation drawn from a broad array of disciplines. It provides the reader with a generic and comprehensive view of modeling, strategies, and state estimation methodologies in that fields. It discusses the most recent research and novel advances in that direction, exploring the design of algorithms and
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Radar for Indoor Monitoring

Detection, Classification, and Assessment

Edited by Moeness Amin ...

This book aims to capture recent advances and breakthroughs in in-home radar monitoring of human motions and activities. It addresses three key attributes of radar for in-door human monitoring, namely: motion classification including fall, detection of vital signs, and categorization of human gait for risk assessment and progression of physical impairments and disabilities. It explores recent ... Read more

$96.99 USD

This book aims to capture recent advances and breakthroughs in in-home radar monitoring of human motions and activities. It addresses three key attributes of radar for in-door human monitoring, namely: motion classification including fall, detection of vital signs, and categorization of human gait for risk assessment and progression of physical impairments and disabilities. It explores recent
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Antennas

From Theory to Practice

by Yi Huang ...

Antennas From Theory to PracticeComprehensive coverage of the fundamentals and latest developments in antennas and antenna designIn the newly revised Second Edition of Antennas: From Theory to Practice, renowned researcher, engineer, and author Professor Yi Huang delivers comprehensive and timely coverage of issues in modern antenna design and theory. Practical and accessible, the book is written ... Read more

$106.00 USD

Antennas From Theory to PracticeComprehensive coverage of the fundamentals and latest developments in antennas and antenna designIn the newly revised Second Edition of Antennas: From Theory to Practice, renowned researcher, engineer, and author Professor Yi Huang delivers comprehensive and timely coverage of issues in modern antenna design and theory. Practical and accessible, the book is written
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SAR Image Analysis - A Computational Statistics Approach

With R Code, Data, and Applications

by Alejandro C. Frery, Jie Wu, Luis Gomez ...

SAR IMAGE ANALYSIS — A COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS APPROACHDiscover how to use statistics to extract information from SAR imageryIn SAR Image Analysis — A Computational Statistics Approach, an accomplished team of researchers delivers a practical exploration of how to use statistics to extract information from SAR imagery. The authors discuss various models, supply sample data and code, and explain ... Read more

$115.00 USD

SAR IMAGE ANALYSIS — A COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS APPROACHDiscover how to use statistics to extract information from SAR imageryIn SAR Image Analysis — A Computational Statistics Approach, an accomplished team of researchers delivers a practical exploration of how to use statistics to extract information from SAR imagery. The authors discuss various models, supply sample data and code, and explain
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Multi-Antenna Synthetic Aperture Radar

by Wen-Qin Wang ...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a well-known remote sensing technique, but conventional single-antenna SAR is inherently limited by the minimum antenna area constraint. Although there are still technical issues to overcome, multi-antenna SAR offers many benefits, from improved system gain to increased degrees-of-freedom and system flexibility. Multi-Antenna Synthetic Aperture Radar explores the ... Read more

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Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a well-known remote sensing technique, but conventional single-antenna SAR is inherently limited by the minimum antenna area constraint. Although there are still technical issues to overcome, multi-antenna SAR offers many benefits, from improved system gain to increased degrees-of-freedom and system flexibility. Multi-Antenna Synthetic Aperture Radar explores the
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Quantum Radar

by Marco Lanzagorta ...

Series series Synthesis Lectures on Quantum Computing
This book offers a concise review of quantum radar theory. Our approach is pedagogical, making emphasis on the physics behind the operation of a hypothetical quantum radar. We concentrate our discussion on the two major models proposed to date: interferometric quantum radar and quantum illumination. In addition, this book offers some new results, including an analytical study of quantum ... Read more

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This book offers a concise review of quantum radar theory. Our approach is pedagogical, making emphasis on the physics behind the operation of a hypothetical quantum radar. We concentrate our discussion on the two major models proposed to date: interferometric quantum radar and quantum illumination. In addition, this book offers some new results, including an analytical study of quantum
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Managing the Storm

Using Doppler Weather Radar to Mitigate the Impact of Thunderstorms on Aviation

by James Evans, John Y. N. Cho, Elizabeth Ducot ...

Series series MIT Lincoln Laboratory Series
A look at recent developments using Doppler weather radar to improve safety and reduce delays in the US aviation system when impacted by thunderstorms.Aviation operations during thunderstorms are significantly improved by timely warnings of hazardous low-altitude wind shear and rapidly updating storm information to support air traffic management. In Managing the Storm, James Evans, John Cho, and ... Read more

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A look at recent developments using Doppler weather radar to improve safety and reduce delays in the US aviation system when impacted by thunderstorms.Aviation operations during thunderstorms are significantly improved by timely warnings of hazardous low-altitude wind shear and rapidly updating storm information to support air traffic management. In Managing the Storm, James Evans, John Cho, and
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Imaging Radar Polarimetric Rotation Domain Interpretation

Theory and Applications

by Si-Wei Chen ...

Series series SAR Remote Sensing
Polarimetric rotation domain interpretation is an innovation in radar image processing and understanding. Orientation rotation is a basic operator well known in the classic polarimetry theory, and significant advancement has been made in recent years. This book presents new and advanced concepts, theories, and methodologies in radar polarimetry and bridges the gaps between target scattering ... Read more

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Polarimetric rotation domain interpretation is an innovation in radar image processing and understanding. Orientation rotation is a basic operator well known in the classic polarimetry theory, and significant advancement has been made in recent years. This book presents new and advanced concepts, theories, and methodologies in radar polarimetry and bridges the gaps between target scattering
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Radar Detection Theory of Sliding Window Processes

by Graham Weinberg ...

Constant false alarm rate detection processes are important in radar signal processing. Such detection strategies are used as an alternative to optimal Neyman-Pearson based decision rules, since they can be implemented as a sliding window process running on a radar range-Doppler map. This book examines the development of such detectors in a modern framework. With a particular focus on high ... Read more

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Constant false alarm rate detection processes are important in radar signal processing. Such detection strategies are used as an alternative to optimal Neyman-Pearson based decision rules, since they can be implemented as a sliding window process running on a radar range-Doppler map. This book examines the development of such detectors in a modern framework. With a particular focus on high
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Signal Processing Algorithms for Communication and Radar Systems

by Kung Yao ...

Based on time-tested course material, this authoritative text examines the key topics, advanced mathematical concepts, and novel analytical tools needed to understand modern communication and radar systems. It covers computational linear algebra theory, VLSI systolic algorithms and designs, practical aspects of chaos theory, and applications in beamforming and array processing, and uses a variety ... Read more

$106.99 USD

Based on time-tested course material, this authoritative text examines the key topics, advanced mathematical concepts, and novel analytical tools needed to understand modern communication and radar systems. It covers computational linear algebra theory, VLSI systolic algorithms and designs, practical aspects of chaos theory, and applications in beamforming and array processing, and uses a variety
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Signal and Image Processing in Navigational Systems

by Vyacheslav Tuzlukov ...

Series series Electrical Engineering & Applied Signal Processing Series
Classical and modern theories have given us a degree of noise immunity by defining the sufficient statistic of the mean of the likelihood function. The generalized theory moves beyond these limitations to determine the jointly sufficient statistics of the mean and variance of the likelihood function. Signal and Image Processing in Navigational Systems introduces us to the generalized approach, and ... Read more

$415.99 USD

Classical and modern theories have given us a degree of noise immunity by defining the sufficient statistic of the mean of the likelihood function. The generalized theory moves beyond these limitations to determine the jointly sufficient statistics of the mean and variance of the likelihood function. Signal and Image Processing in Navigational Systems introduces us to the generalized approach, and
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Fundamentals of Multisite Radar Systems

Multistatic Radars and Multistatic Radar Systems

by V S Chernyak ...

This is an original and comprehensive monograph on the increasingly important field of Multistatic Radar Systems. The material covered includes target detection, coordinate and trajectory parameter estimation, optimum and suboptimum detectors and external interferences. The practical problems faced by those working with radar systems are considered - most algorithms are presented in a form ... Read more

$345.99 USD

This is an original and comprehensive monograph on the increasingly important field of Multistatic Radar Systems. The material covered includes target detection, coordinate and trajectory parameter estimation, optimum and suboptimum detectors and external interferences. The practical problems faced by those working with radar systems are considered - most algorithms are presented in a form
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Beamforming: Sensor Signal Processing For Defence Applications

by Athanassios Manikas ...

Series Book 5 - Communications And Signal Processing
Beamforming: Sensor Signal Processing for Defence Applications presents a range of important research contributions concerned with sensor array signal processing and, in particular, with the superresolution beamformers fundamental to many civilian and defence applications. Both space and space-time (STAP) beamforming algorithms and their application to radar systems are considered with emphasis ... Read more

$43.99 USD

Beamforming: Sensor Signal Processing for Defence Applications presents a range of important research contributions concerned with sensor array signal processing and, in particular, with the superresolution beamformers fundamental to many civilian and defence applications. Both space and space-time (STAP) beamforming algorithms and their application to radar systems are considered with emphasis
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Foundations of Antenna Radiation Theory

Eigenmode Analysis

by Wen Geyi ...

Series series IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory and Applications
Foundations of Antenna Radiation TheoryUnderstand the theory and function of wireless antennas with this comprehensive guideAs wireless technology continues to develop, understanding of antenna properties and performance will only become more critical. Since antennas can be understood as junctions of waveguides, eigenmode analysis—the foundation of waveguide theory, concerned with the unexcited ... Read more

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Foundations of Antenna Radiation TheoryUnderstand the theory and function of wireless antennas with this comprehensive guideAs wireless technology continues to develop, understanding of antenna properties and performance will only become more critical. Since antennas can be understood as junctions of waveguides, eigenmode analysis—the foundation of waveguide theory, concerned with the unexcited
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Microwave Devices and Circuits for Advanced Wireless Communication

Design and Analysis

Edited by Dilip Kumar Choudhary, Naveen Mishra, Indrasen Singh, Naser Ojaroudi Parchin, Ghanshyam Singh ...

Series series Materials, Devices, and Circuits
This book offers a comprehensive overview of design and analysis of microwave devices and circuits for 5G and beyond wireless communication systems. It focuses on modern microwave antennas, filters, metamaterials, and MIMO systems. It includes a design approach based on Artificial Intelligence and the practical use of microwave devices and circuits in commercial, medical, and military applications ... Read more

$77.99 USD

This book offers a comprehensive overview of design and analysis of microwave devices and circuits for 5G and beyond wireless communication systems. It focuses on modern microwave antennas, filters, metamaterials, and MIMO systems. It includes a design approach based on Artificial Intelligence and the practical use of microwave devices and circuits in commercial, medical, and military applications
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Information-Theoretic Radar Signal Processing

Edited by Yujie Gu, Yimin D. Zhang ...

A comprehensive introduction to the emerging research in information-theoretic radar signal processingSignal processing plays a pivotal role in radar systems to estimate, visualize, and leverage useful target information from noisy and distorted radar signals, harnessing their spatial characteristics, temporal features, and Doppler signatures. The burgeoning applications of information theory in ... Read more

$124.00 USD

A comprehensive introduction to the emerging research in information-theoretic radar signal processingSignal processing plays a pivotal role in radar systems to estimate, visualize, and leverage useful target information from noisy and distorted radar signals, harnessing their spatial characteristics, temporal features, and Doppler signatures. The burgeoning applications of information theory in
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