| Description |
1 online resource (414 pages) |
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Radar, sonar and navigation |
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Radar, Sonar and Navigation Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- List of symbols -- List of acronyms -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Prologue -- 1.2 Maritime surveillance radars -- 1.3 The sea surface -- 1.4 Clutter characteristics -- 1.5 Sea clutter modelling -- 1.6 Data sets -- 1.7 Book outline -- References -- 2. Monostatic sea clutter -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Mean backscatter -- 2.3 Amplitude distributions -- 2.4 Sea-spike characteristics -- 2.5 Doppler characteristics -- 2.6 Texture correlation -- References -- 3. Bistatic sea clutter -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Bistatic geometry |
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3.3 Active bistatic radar -- 3.4 Passive bistatic radar -- 3.5 Discussion on bistatic sea clutter -- References -- 4. Parametric modelling -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Monostatic mean backscatter -- 4.3 Bistatic mean reflectivity -- 4.4 K-Distribution shape -- 4.5 Doppler spectrum -- 4.6 Spatial correlation -- References -- 5. Sea clutter simulation -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Uniform Doppler spectrum -- 5.3 Evolving Doppler spectrum -- 5.4 Other simulation algorithms -- References -- 6. Performance prediction modelling -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Radar range equation -- 6.3 Non-coherent processing |
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6.4 Coherent processing -- 6.5 Assessing end-to-end radar performance -- References -- 7. Maritime target detection techniques -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Non-coherent detection -- 7.3 Pareto CFAR detectors -- 7.4 Coherent detection -- 7.5 Detection in heterogeneous environments -- References -- 8. New approaches for target detection -- 8.1 Time/frequency target separation -- 8.2 Sparse signal separation -- 8.3 Dictionary learning -- 8.4 Track before detect -- References -- Appendix A: Goodness of fit metrics -- A.1 Chi-square test -- A.2 Kolmogorov-Smirnov test -- A.3 Bhattacharyya distance |
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A.4 Threshold error -- References -- Appendix B: Bimodal parameters for the evolving Doppler spectrum -- References -- Appendix C: Atmospheric and precipitation losses -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This book presents comprehensive coverage of new research into sea clutter characterisation and modelling, radar performance prediction and maritime target detection. The book also includes a summary of sea-clutter scattering characteristics and datasets provided that can be used for modelling |
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Navigation |
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| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Incoherent scatter radar.
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Incoherent scatter radar -- Mathematical models
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Radar -- Interference.
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Radar -- Interference -- Mathematical models
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Radar in navigation.
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Radar in navigation -- Mathematical models
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Incoherent scatter radar
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Radar in navigation
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Radar -- Interference
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Radar -- Interference -- Mathematical models
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Watts, Simon, 1949- author.
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| ISBN |
1785619144 |
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9781785619144 |
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