Synthetic Aperture Radar Signal Processing with MATLAB...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 648 pages
• Published by: Wiley-Interscience
• Edition: 1st Edition April 13, 1999
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0471297062
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471297062
• Book Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 2.3 pounds

Product Description
An up-to-date analysis of the SAR wavefront reconstruction signal theory and its digital implementation With the advent of fast computing and digital information processing techniques, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology has become both more powerful and more accurate. Synthetic Aperture Radar Signal Processing with MATLAB Algorithms addresses these recent developments, providing a complete, up-to-date analysis of SAR and its associated digital signal processing algorithms. This book introduces the wavefront reconstruction signal theory that underlies the best SAR imaging methods and provides clear guidelines to system design, implementation, and applications in diverse areas-from airborne reconnaissance to topographic imaging of ocean floors to surveillance and air traffic control to medical imaging techniques, and numerous others. Enabling professionals in radar signal and image processing to use synthetic aperture technology to its fullest potential, this work:
* Includes M-files to supplement this book that can be retrieved from The MathWorks anonymous FTP server at ftp://ftp.mathworks.com/pub/books/soumekh
* Provides practical examples and results from real SAR, ISAR, and CSAR databases
* Outlines unique properties of the SAR signal that cannot be found in other information processing systems
* looks at spotlight SAR, stripmap SAR, circular SAR, and monopulse SAR modalities
* Discusses classical SAR processing issues such as motion compensation and radar calibration

Book Info
Introduces the wavefront reconstruction signal theory that underlies the best SAR imaging methods and provides clear guidelines to system design, implementation, and applications in diverse areasfrom airborne reconnaissance to topographic imaging of ocean floors to surveillance and air traffic control to medical imaging techniques. DLC: Synthetic aperature radar.

Reader Reviews
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. Soumekh takes us through the basic theory. Intensive numerical analysis. Which is why Matlab has been drafted by him to aid us. A nice aid to following the concepts and seeing examples that are non-trivial. The hardest sections of each chapter are on the reconstruction of the data. That is, in the finding of possible sources that gave rise to the observed signals. You would do well before reading this book to be fully conversant about [Fast] Fourier Transforms and scattering of radiation from objects. Put it this way, if Point Spread Function doesn't mean anything to you, then the book might be of limited use in your situation. He discusses important geometries, like stripmap and the circular SAR. But just as importantly, there is good mention of applications like aerial reconnaissance or surveying. Comment | | (Report this)