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Radar Systems Analysis and Design Using MATLAB Second Edition

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What makes this an especially useful book, is the coupling with the MATLAB routines, which are downloaded from the publisher's website. Once on your PC, you can edit them, put your own code into them, integrate them with your other routines, or use them stand-alone. Surprisingly, the download worked exactly as stated in the book, the very first time, without any problems. You are good to go, instantly. The book tells you how to use the downloaded routines, and gives background information on the topic. You can also reproduce the figures in the book, with the routines provided. This is especially useful if you like the graph, but need to adjust it (i.e. edit the routine)to cover your particular problem. If you don't have access to MATLAB, you might like the Richard Curry book "Radar System Performance Modeling", which has radar functions that plug into your Excel spreadsheet as add-in user-defined functions. I have both, and use both, for different applications.

I love this book. It is comprehensive and it presents the material so that any one can make sense out of it. This is a Must Have kind of book. The MATLAB code makes it even more usefull for people like me working in the field. You can download all these programs form the publisher's web site. Have you ever wondered how to re-produce any plot or figure in any other radar book? Well, wonder no more, the code provided with this book allows you to do so, plus you can use it to generate your own outputs that match your needs and requirements.

This is the best book written on Radar Analysis and Design. What realy makes this book special is that it presents the subject in an easy to follow way. Additionally, the MATLAB routines provided with this book makes it really unique and very useful. Add to all that the end of chapter problems and you have the an execllent reference. I give it five stars all the way.

There are lots of books published on radar systems analysis. Non of these books demonstrate in a clear way how to use and implement the covered material. This book goes an important step further and teaches the reader how to apply the material presented, using easy to follow MATLAB programs. After reading this book you can have a clear understanding of how to solve and analyze real life radar problems.

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).

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.

I have used the 1st edition the matched-filter mfile ran fine with the authors data set. In the 2nd edition hte mfiles have been rewritten and take forever to run, the matched-filter to well over 10 minutes. Great book, use the 1st editions mfiles!!!!!!

This is a fine radar text and particularly well suited to a course on the subject (MatLab code included in text and download). Well suited because the author develops the storyline a piece at a time. Starting with outcomes under simple assumptions (e.g. a single pulse vs. a pulse train). For those with experience in the field don't let that throw you. If you do, you'll find e.g. the range-resolution/doppler-resolution ambiguity function (though not frequently used in practice) gives a result that doppler resolution is proportional to the inverse of pulsewidth. For a 1us pulsewidth, that's a doppler resolution at best of a MHz. Far from what you expected with the more usual 200Hz to 500Hz doppler binwidths. Only later, near the end of this same chapter do you recognize your expectation is satisfied by a pulse train, where doppler resolution is the inverse of integration time over that train (after all, he did say the first example was for a single pulse). Like so many radar texts, this one also leaves out some critical topics that seem to fall under the heading of esoteric. However without factors like phase noise, image noise and channel balance, your radar won't work - at least not well. These aren't any more complex than anything else in the book, so why at least a mention doesn't make print is always a bit baffling. Also, while this second edition has fixed bugs in the first edition, it still has some (like pulse compression matched_filter.m), so as always, you'll have to fix what you get. But that's a lot better than nothing as most of the guts are there to make the creature you're trying to create come alive.

The book was accurately described and very promptly shipped. This was a very positive experience, considering I got a like-new book for a bargain price.

An excellent text with a good collection of tested Matlab models available on the CRC website. This text is suitable for practising engineers in the area and graduate students involved in radar and related areas.