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A Summer Bright and Terrible

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

de 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 ... Leer más

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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

de 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 ... Leer más

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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

de 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 ... Leer más

$12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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
... Leer más
Imaging Radar Polarimetric Rotation Domain Interpretation

Theory and Applications

de 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 ... Leer más

$77.99 USD

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

de 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 ... Leer más

$70.99 USD

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
... Leer más
Signal Processing Algorithms for Communication and Radar Systems

de 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 ... Leer más

$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

de 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 ... Leer más

$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

de 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 ... Leer más

$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
... Leer más
Beamforming: Sensor Signal Processing For Defence Applications

de Athanassios Manikas ...

Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

$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

de 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 ... Leer más

$124.00 USD

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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Non-Imaging Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Sensors for Concealed Object Detection

de Boris Y. Kapilevich, Stuart W. Harmer, Nicholas J. Bowring ...

In response to the ever-increasing global threat of terrorist attacks, the personal screening industry has been growing at a rapid rate. Many methods have been developed for detecting concealed weapons and explosives on the human body. In this important new book, the authors discuss their experiences over the last decade designing and testing microwave and millimetre wave detection and screening ... Leer más

$125.99 USD

In response to the ever-increasing global threat of terrorist attacks, the personal screening industry has been growing at a rapid rate. Many methods have been developed for detecting concealed weapons and explosives on the human body. In this important new book, the authors discuss their experiences over the last decade designing and testing microwave and millimetre wave detection and screening
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Kalman Filtering Techniques for Radar Tracking

de K.V. Ramachandra ...

A review of effective radar tracking filter methods and their associated digital filtering algorithms. It examines newly developed systems for eliminating the real-time execution of complete recursive Kalman filtering matrix equations that reduce tracking and update time. It also focuses on the role of tracking filters in operations of radar data processors for satellites, missiles, aircraft, ... Leer más

$375.99 USD

A review of effective radar tracking filter methods and their associated digital filtering algorithms. It examines newly developed systems for eliminating the real-time execution of complete recursive Kalman filtering matrix equations that reduce tracking and update time. It also focuses on the role of tracking filters in operations of radar data processors for satellites, missiles, aircraft,
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Advanced Radar Interferometry Technology

Nonlinear Coastal Wave Dynamics Modelling and Coastal Cities Vanishing

de Maged Marghany ...

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology is an operational tool for measuring and monitoring coastal urban stability, including the disappearance of coastal cities. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of how to track climate change impacts on coastal dynamics and their consequent effects on coastal geomorphological changes. Advanced InSAR techniques are discussed, ... Leer más

$64.99 USD

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology is an operational tool for measuring and monitoring coastal urban stability, including the disappearance of coastal cities. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of how to track climate change impacts on coastal dynamics and their consequent effects on coastal geomorphological changes. Advanced InSAR techniques are discussed,
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Continuous-Time Signals and Systems

A MATLAB-Integrated Approach, Second Edition

de Oktay Alkin ...

The enhanced ebook version includes clickable links to MATLAB code (scripts and live-scripts) relevant to the material being discussed. These links open the online version of MATLAB in a browser, bring in the relevant code from a github repository, and allow the user to run the code. An active user account with mathworks.com is needed for this to work. If the user has access to a MATLAB license ... Leer más

$130.99 USD

The enhanced ebook version includes clickable links to MATLAB code (scripts and live-scripts) relevant to the material being discussed. These links open the online version of MATLAB in a browser, bring in the relevant code from a github repository, and allow the user to run the code. An active user account with mathworks.com is needed for this to work. If the user has access to a MATLAB license
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Air and Spaceborne Radar Systems

An Introduction

de Philippe Lacomme, Jean-Claude Marchais, Jean-Philippe Hardange, Eric Normant ...

A practical tool on radar systems that will be of major help to technicians, student engineers and engineers working in industry and in radar research and development. The many users of radar as well as systems engineers and designers will also find it highly useful. Also of interest to pilots and flight engineers and military command personnel and military contractors. ""This introduction to the ... Leer más

$184.99 USD

A practical tool on radar systems that will be of major help to technicians, student engineers and engineers working in industry and in radar research and development. The many users of radar as well as systems engineers and designers will also find it highly useful. Also of interest to pilots and flight engineers and military command personnel and military contractors. ""This introduction to the
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History of Radar

How We Learned to See Without Eyes

de Kenny Hart ...

THE ENEMY IS INVISIBLE — AND YOU’VE BEEN BLIND.You’re surrounded by threats you can’t see. Storms that form out of nothing. Aircraft that vanish from screens. Dangers moving through darkness, cloud, fog, and silence. For most of human history, we were powerless—trapped by the limits of our own eyes.Then, in 1939, everything changed.This is the gripping, pulse-pounding story of how scientists ... Leer más

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THE ENEMY IS INVISIBLE — AND YOU’VE BEEN BLIND.You’re surrounded by threats you can’t see. Storms that form out of nothing. Aircraft that vanish from screens. Dangers moving through darkness, cloud, fog, and silence. For most of human history, we were powerless—trapped by the limits of our own eyes.Then, in 1939, everything changed.This is the gripping, pulse-pounding story of how scientists
... Leer más
Discrete-Time Signals and Systems

A MATLAB Integrated Approach

de Oktay Alkin ...

The enhanced ebook version includes clickable links to MATLAB code (scripts and live-scripts) relevant to the material being discussed. These links open the online version of MATLAB in a browser, bring in the relevant code from a github repository, and allow the user to run the code. An active user account with mathworks.com is needed for this to work. If the user has access to a MATLAB license ... Leer más

$130.99 USD

The enhanced ebook version includes clickable links to MATLAB code (scripts and live-scripts) relevant to the material being discussed. These links open the online version of MATLAB in a browser, bring in the relevant code from a github repository, and allow the user to run the code. An active user account with mathworks.com is needed for this to work. If the user has access to a MATLAB license
... Leer más
Microwave and RF Product Applications

Edición de Mike Golio ...

Series series Principles and Applications in Engineering
The field of microwave engineering has undergone a radical transformation in recent years, as commercial wireless endeavors overtook defense and government work. The modern microwave and RF engineer must be knowledgeable about customer expectations, market trends, manufacturing technologies, and factory models to a degree that is unprecedented. Unf ... Leer más

$254.99 USD

The field of microwave engineering has undergone a radical transformation in recent years, as commercial wireless endeavors overtook defense and government work. The modern microwave and RF engineer must be knowledgeable about customer expectations, market trends, manufacturing technologies, and factory models to a degree that is unprecedented. Unf
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Infrared Spectroscopy of Symmetric and Spherical Spindles for Space Observation 1

de Pierre-Richard Dahoo, Azzedine Lakhlifi ...

This book is dedicated to the description and application of various different theoretical models to identify the near and mid-infrared spectra of symmetric and spherical top molecules in their gaseous form.Theoretical models based on the use of group theory are applied to rigid and non-rigid molecules, characterized by the phenomenon of tunneling and large amplitude motions. The calculation of ... Leer más

$142.00 USD

This book is dedicated to the description and application of various different theoretical models to identify the near and mid-infrared spectra of symmetric and spherical top molecules in their gaseous form.Theoretical models based on the use of group theory are applied to rigid and non-rigid molecules, characterized by the phenomenon of tunneling and large amplitude motions. The calculation of
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Mutual Coupling Between Antennas

de Trevor S. Bird ...

Mutual Coupling Between AntennasA guide to mutual coupling between various types of antennas in arrays such as wires, apertures and microstrip patches or antennas co-sited on platformsMutual Coupling Between Antennas explores the theoretical underpinnings of mutual coupling, offers an up-to-date description of the physical effects of mutual coupling for a variety of antennas, and contains ... Leer más

$127.00 USD

Mutual Coupling Between AntennasA guide to mutual coupling between various types of antennas in arrays such as wires, apertures and microstrip patches or antennas co-sited on platformsMutual Coupling Between Antennas explores the theoretical underpinnings of mutual coupling, offers an up-to-date description of the physical effects of mutual coupling for a variety of antennas, and contains
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Invisible Waves

The Complete History and Future of Radio

de Douglas Donovan ...

From Marconi's first spark across the Atlantic to tomorrow's quantum communications-the complete story of the invisible waves that transformed our world.In 1901, three simple dots transmitted across the ocean changed everything. Guglielmo Marconi's wireless signal marked the beginning of the radio age, but the true story of radio waves began decades earlier with James Clerk Maxwell's revolutionary ... Leer más

$9.99 USD

From Marconi's first spark across the Atlantic to tomorrow's quantum communications-the complete story of the invisible waves that transformed our world.In 1901, three simple dots transmitted across the ocean changed everything. Guglielmo Marconi's wireless signal marked the beginning of the radio age, but the true story of radio waves began decades earlier with James Clerk Maxwell's revolutionary
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Radar Networks

de 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, ... Leer más

$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,
... Leer más
Signal Processing in Radar Systems

de 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 ... Leer más

$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

Edición de 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 ... Leer más

$400.99 USD

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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