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I'm not a radar expert, but with this book I COULD BE!!!
Mr. Stimson's book, "Introduction to Airborne Radar (2nd Edition)," has been one of my most treasured purchases from my graduate school education. I expected a book filled with equations and bad graphs and tables - I was wonderfully surprised by the high quality graphics, easy to follow mathematical treatment, and historical views into past and present radar systems.
No other introduction needed
Stimson's second edition is a slight improvement over his first. "Slight" because improving near perfection remains a difficult task. Nowhere else is such clarity apparent in the complex field of radars. Thanks to Stimson this subject could be understood by my grandmother. If only Stimson would carry edition three to the next echelon, extending depth and detail to levels required to actually build and make a working, modern radar. Like applying his talent to the intricacies of adaptive processing, a completion of SAR computational demands and processes (vs. stopping at the digital filter FFT), nuances of ever more important phase noise, test, measurement and producibility of radar systems that shouldn't cost a million dollars per copy, but a fraction of this with proper processes and synergistic integration vs. the "Mister Potato Head" approach of slapping together the latest-greatest-of-every-subsystem-technology still practiced by engineers in just about everything. Unfortunately this may be our last version from Stimson as he's no longer a young man and such efforts are monumental. Even so, he's made himself a national asset creating this magnificent edition, probably lasting longer than any of us in the field today.

Not easy reading
I bought this book because I work with radar and would like to improve my understanding of it. This book is a good middle ground, but for a dummy like me, several chapters require re-reads.One of the most annoying things is that when the author describes related material, he doesn't compare and contrast as much as write one paragraph on the attributes of thing A and then another paragraph on thing B using all but two words that were used in the first paragraph. The reader must wade through this writing and then compare and contrast themself.Read more

Subjects:  1. Aeronautical Engineering (Specific Aspects)    2. Aeronautics & Astronautics    3. Airplanes    4. Aviation - General    5. Radar    6. Radar Technology    7. Radar equipment    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Aerospace & aviation technology    12. Technology / Radar   

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An Excellent Radar Reference Book
The day after I bought this book, I made a mistake telling a colleague about it, after which it was very difficult to track it down who has it and who is using it in a team of several Radar Engineers. They had all used it as a definitive reference book on any aspect of Radar design - it covers everything that you need to know and want to know right NOW about a Radar clearly and accurately. On Target For Radar Handbook
Buy this book! I spent 3 years overseas(Aviano AB, Italy) in the USAF as an Electronic Warfare Systems tech, If you value information on RADAR fundamentals, you will buy this book.It provides the full range frombasic theory to applications requiring integral calculus.You Will Learnfrom this book!The bulk is focussed on radar applications and theory. There are sections on ECM(Electronic Countermeasures).This is theonly book that I have found to compile good information in one place...ItIS the HANDBOOK.Yes, it's expensive, but it's worth it. Chip in and get acopy for your unit.For ECM troops, If you value your pilot's lives--READand LEARN!

On Target For Radar Handbook
Buy this book! I spent 3 years overseas in the USAF as an Electronic Warfare Systems tech, If you value information on RADAR fundamentals, you will buy this book.It provides the full range from basic theory toapplications requiring integral calculus.You Will Learn from this book! The bulk is focussed on radar applications and theory.There are sectionson ECM(Electronic Countermeasures).This is the only book that I havefound to compile good information in one place...It IS the HANDBOOK.Yes,it's expensive, but it's worth it. Chip in and get a copy for your unit. For ECM troops, If you value your pilot's lives--READ and LEARN! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    2. Handbooks, manuals, etc    3. Radar    4. Radar Technology    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Technology / Engineering / Electrical   

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Excellent excellent book
I have enjoyed this book enormously throughout. While there are a fairly large number of radar books available, this is the first that I have read that lays out the signal processing aspects of radar in such a coherent, pedagogically sound, and self-contained way, generally from first principles. For example, the exposition of slow and fast time processing throughout the book was very illuminating, as was the connection drawn between the Neyman-Pearson receiver and the matched filter.The only other text I have seen that combines such clarity of vision, readability, and rigor is the book by Peebles, which unfortunately has little material on digital radar signal processing.
Superior treatment
This is a superior book! There is nothing comparable in either the general radar or the signal processing literature. It provides an exceptionally clear treatment of difficult subject matter. The author patiently guides the reader through radar basics and then into the depths of the associated data processing concepts. The treatment is so lucid that even a neophyte can expect to develop a deep understanding of the concepts involved and be able to apply them immediately (i.e.,When the boss comes in and says, "You're my radar expert. Tell me how you're going to process the all the data!", this book is the antidote to the ensuing panic attack.). The clarity of the brief radar dicussions throughout the text (e.g., the SAR chapter)will provide glimmers of additional insight on radar even to those with indepth knowledge of the area.
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Subjects:  1. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    2. Radar    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Signal processing    5. Technology    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Technology / Engineering / Electrical   

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Excellent book on estimation/Kalman filter
I don't usually write online reviews but this book is so clear and useful that I really want to recommend it to others. It is well written with a good outline and summary for every chapter. It also has a pretty diverse range of topics on estimation, including an introductory chapter on basic estimation approaches (e.g., ML, MAP, least squares), and very practical extensions (e.g., state augmentation, square-root filters). Even though I am not in EE and some of the examples are thus not particularly helpful to me, I still find this book one of the best of all the estimation/Kalman filter books out there.

best standard book for target tracking system
I think any person who major in target tracking system related to the Kalman filter must see this book. This book present the fundamentals of state estimation theory and the tools for the design of state-of-the-art algorithms for target tracking. Read more

Subjects:  1. Artificial Intelligence - General    2. Automation    3. Control systems    4. Data Transmission Systems    5. Data Transmission Systems - General    6. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    7. Engineering - Mechanical    8. Motion control devices    9. Remote control    10. Robots    11. Science/Mathematics    12. Technology    13. Technology & Industrial Arts    14. Telecommunication systems    15. Applications of Computing    16. Engineering: general    17. Mathematics for scientists & engineers    18. Probability & statistics    19. Radar    20. Technology / Engineering / Electrical   

Reviews (6)

Great book for both, under-graduate and post-graduate students
I find this book very professional educationally, the book starts in clever, easy, baby steps to trigger the reader's mind and to attract him to the radar technology, this is in the first half of the book. the second half boosts the reader withwell organized advanced radar systems. The book is excellent for communication as well as electomagnetics and antennae students, the book finds the way to balance this issue.

A thorough but somewhat dated book
This book is one of the best introduction to Radar can be found in the market. I get the 2002 third edition. It is a good book for those who are new to the subject. However, it maybe somewhat dated and not that sufficient for those who want to do further research in particular radar area.

Know the basics well before starting this book
I was in the USAF for 9 years and am now studying for a degree as an electronics technician.While in the service, I worked a variety of radar jammers and receivers and this volume has pieced together very well that is going on at the other end of the radar.While I learned how radars worked, I learned more how to exploit weaknesses, not the ins and outs of how exactly they were supposed to work.This book was very helpful in enhancing my knowledge of radar, and is an invaluable reference in my library. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    2. Radar    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Technology    5. Technology & Industrial Arts    6. Electronics & Communications Engineering    7. Science / Electromagnetism   

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Excellent comprehensive text
To me, this book's greatest strength is instant applicability of theories and recipes presented in it. Virtually all topics in SAR are covered with great quality. There is no hard tie to any particular type of radar signals, which makes it very versatile.
One of the best texts on SAR signal processing
SAR imaging owes a lot to inverse scattering theory, coherence theory, Fourier optics and holography. Luckily, Soumekh comes from an optics background and therefore, is very comfortable with all the optics stuff. He has done an excellent job in presenting different modalities of SAR imaging like stripmap and spotlight and implementing the algorithms in matlab. There is a lot of depth in his book and every time I read it I understand something that I could not understand when I read it last time. I have become a fan of Soumekh. I also attended one of his tutorials based on this book in the SPIE symposium in Orlando Florida.

nice applications with heavy computations
Wasn't there once a time, in the depths of the Cold War, when Synthetic Aperture Radar was highly classified? It is still jarring to me to see a book like this, telling all and sundry about the many applications to which it can be directed.
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Subjects:  1. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    2. General    3. MATLAB    4. Mathematics    5. Radar    6. Radar Technology    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Signal processing    9. Synthetic aperture radar    10. Technology    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Image processing    13. Mathematical theory of computation    14. Technology / Imaging Systems   

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Faulty approximations and poor "folksy" presentation
The book was a major disappointment given the previous "5 star" rating and high price.I quit reading the book after 56 pages.
Excellent treatment of auto-focus techniques from the leader
This book describes the PGA algorithm which is used extensively in all modern SAR systems. A clear and broad treatment of SAR processing. This should be the first SAR book you reach for. It's nice to read about algorithms from the originators for a change. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Digital techniques    2. Electronics - General    3. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    4. Radar    5. Radar Technology    6. Signal processing    7. Synthetic aperture radar    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Sound, vibration & waves (acoustics)    11. Technology / Engineering / Electrical   

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Ever hear of 'last name' reference books?
Ever hear of 'last name' reference books?Read more

Subjects:  1. Algorithms    2. Radar    3. Radar Technology    4. Radio    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Signal Processing (Communication Engineering)    7. Signal processing    8. Synthetic aperture radar    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Image processing    11. Mathematics for scientists & engineers    12. Microwave technology    13. Remote sensing   

Reviews (7)

2nd edition is OK
2nd edition is a Reorganization of the 1st edition. Author mentions Apeendix F which is missing, and etc. Needs editorial work for the price.
Good Mix of Presentation and Hands On
I have worked through the first couple of chapters so far and I think this book is great.This book offers good technical derivations and explanations (never thought I would want to see a derivation again after gettting my BSc EE).It also has problems to work through and a good library of m files to work with from the website.My only complaint is that the answers to the end of the chapter questions are not provided (although there are very good examples of other problems in the chapter).

Extremely Useful Radar Resource
If there is a marathon radar book, this one wins the race.This book is a top-notch radar analysis resource.I reference this text on a weekly (sometimes daily) basis. The MATLAB code this book provides is concise and very useful.I recommend this book to anyone interested in radar at any level.The examples are easy to understand and the review problems further reinforce the text material. From beginning to end, this book covers subjects from the Radar Equation to Clutter to Tracking.Mahafza hits a home run with this one.I only hope there is a follow-up text out soon. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Data processing    2. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    3. Industrial Technology    4. MATLAB    5. Radar    6. Science/Mathematics    7. System analysis    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Mathematics    11. Technology / Engineering / Electrical   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    2. Kalman filtering    3. Mathematics    4. Radar    5. Radar defense networks    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Tracking radar    10. United States    11. Circuits & components   

Subjects:  1. Antennas    2. Applied Electromagnetics    3. Electromagnetic compatibility    4. Electromagnetic waves    5. Electromagnetism    6. Engineering - General    7. Optics    8. Radar    9. Radar Technology    10. Radio    11. Scattering    12. Science    13. Science/Mathematics    14. Technology & Industrial Arts    15. Microwave technology    16. Technology / Radio   

Subjects:  1. Evaluation    2. Handbooks, manuals, etc    3. Radar    4. Radar Technology    5. Radio    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology & Industrial Arts   

Subjects:  1. Digital techniques    2. Industrial Technology    3. Radar    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Signal processing    6. Synthetic aperture radar    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    2. Radar    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Technology    5. Technology & Industrial Arts    6. Military engineering   

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An outstanding radar textbook on the academic level
This is an excellent radar textbook for advanced students on the academic level. The distiction is necessary, because older textbooks by Barton, Skolnik and Nathansson were mostly designed for radar engineers. Modernstudents have a better mathematical background than previous generationsand this is used to advantage in Levanon's text. The author uses everyopportunity to present his results in a general and easy-to-read form. Theexamples are excellent and often based on the author's own researchexperience. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Radar    2. Radar Technology    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Technology    5. Technology & Industrial Arts    6. Technology / Radar   

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Small but excellent
The book appears small possibly insignificent; however, it contains a wealth of data invaluable to both military consultant, technical manager or boffin. As a resource it is nigh on perfect. It complements the Introduction to Radar book by Skolnik by offering the complex arguments within radar in an understandable format, allowing the reader to dive deeper into the subject area using Skolnik's tome. pound for pound one of the best
This book has the fewest errors and least misleading information on radar and propagation pound-for-pound of any books on electromagnetism I have seen.It outclasses Skolnik et al.It will not be found suitable for academic instruction because it is way too concise and is not threaded with obtuse mathematical premise as is wont of high level education, eventhough it has questions and answers with each chapter.This is your little book of big radar and electromagnetics.

An excellent introduction for non-experts
Quite simply, the book is true to its title.This book is intended for scientists, engineers, mathematicians, managers, and other college-educated persons who need to interact intelligently with radar experts.J.C.Toomay's book won't make you an expert, but the consise, focused chapterswill quickly acquaint you with the radar concepts you need to contribute indevelopment or analysis of systems that include elements of radartechnology.One note of caution is that this book does treat a verytechnical subject, and although Toomay doesn't spend pages deriving radarequations, the reader will need a good understanding of integral calculusand fourier analysis to get the most out of his book.A solid backgroundin engineering or physical science is a thorough prerequisite for gettingthe most out of this book.Read more

Subjects:  1. Radar    2. Science/Mathematics    3. Technology    4. Technology & Industrial Arts    5. Technology / Radar   

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It is a manifesto for the today's marketing communications
It is a great book. I really enjoyed it and I recommended it to some of my fellow co-workers. Who are these...?
If the level of writing and thinking is any indicator of the brains behind this agency, they should close within six months. Pretty good book for the consumer.
I borrowed this book from a friend in the ad business. It's pretty good in that it shows how 'they' try to influence 'our' buying decisions. Now when I shop, I think twice before I purchase something. Thanks! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Advertising    2. Advertising & Promotion    3. Advertising agencies    4. Advertising campaigns    5. Business & Economics    6. Business / Economics / Finance    7. Business/Economics    8. Radar    9. United States    10. Business & Economics / Advertising & Promotion   

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extended foray into Maxwell's Equations
The book can be considered an extended foray into the use of Maxwell's Equations. The authors show, essentially ab initio, how you can start from those equations and understand how an antenna works. And how different antennas are optimised for different purposes.
Very good computational EM reference
Used the book as reference to learn Computational Electromagnetics Methods

The examples are terrific!
I was so glad that actual examples with the answers were included! I was able to write my own FDTD code using one of the examples! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Antenna Theory    2. Antennas (Electronics)    3. Electricity    4. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    5. Radar    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Telecommunications    10. Communications engineering / telecommunications    11. Technology / Engineering / Electrical   

Subjects:  1. Electronics - General    2. Radar    3. Radar Technology    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Technology    6. Technology & Industrial Arts   

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Complete, careful, well written.
After having used a half dozen books on the topic of synthetic aperture radar signal processing, this is the best. The authors are very careful with their explanations and derivations, and keep their discussions within the subject context. Other books don't do this, and the details of SAR processing can become confusing to the novice. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in SAR, despite the very high price tag.

Marcus Monteiro
This book is for people with some knowledge on SAR who likes to know mathematical theory behind SAR processing. The authors focused their attention on satellite boarded radars, leaving in second plan problems faced on aircraft boarded SAR systems. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Radar    2. Radar Technology    3. Remote Sensing    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Signal processing    6. Synthetic aperture radar    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Image processing    10. Technology / Remote Sensing