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Radar Principles

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In my opinion, this book offers a great introduction of Radar. It describes in detail the Radar equation: how distance between target & receiver, radar cross section, antenna gains, and path losses affect the received signal strength. The book has an entire chapter devoted to antennas including how to calculate antenna gain, efficieny, and power distribution. In that chapter, Peebles shows how to calculate antenna parameters for both rectangular and circular aperature antennas as well as antenna arrays.

In addition to antennas, it has an entire chapter devoted to radar cross sections. Peebles shows how radar cross sections can be derived, and gives several detailed examples for simple objects such as spheres. He also gives examples for radar cross sections for area targets such as land and sea.

Because radar is such a large topic, this book does not cover everything. Peebles does cover other elementary subjects such as radar detection and resolution and Doppler radar, but it does not get into synthetic aperature radar. However, it is still a great book for learning the basics of Radar.

This is an excellent modern text on Radar Principles for graduate students in Electrical Engineering. I would also recommend buying it jointly with Skolnik's Introduction to Radar Systems. These are companion references for my activities as a Radar Engineer at Thales Alenia Space.

We had this book as reference for our graduate level Radar course. For those who are not a master in radars already, the word "Horrible" would be a close description for this book. I 100% disagree with "dargo2001's" review. This book is far from being useful as an introduction material. The writing style indubitably makes the otherwise not so hard concepts (which I later realized from another book) seam indescribably esoteric.

If you are a beginner to Radars, I suggest borrowing this book from somewhere and going through it, and I guarantee, that you will not buy it. My very sincere advice is, get "Matlab Simulations for Radar Systems design" or any other book from "Mahafsa" and you would be pleasantly delighted by the fascinating world of Radars and in the end way more knowledgeable.