Completely modernized, greatly expanded, but retaining all the magic of the 2nd edition, Introduction to Airborne Radar has been brought into the 21st century without losing the hallmarks that made George Stimson's previous editions unique. Every chapter has been updated to reflect the constant transformations in radar technology and end-of-chapter exercises have also been added, improving its employment as a textbook.
Over 100 radar and EW experts from around the world were involved in reviewing, writing, and editing this book, each one a longtime user of the previous editions. Each one of them was tasked with making sure this third edition lives up to its legacy of 'Introduction.'
Stimson's is written specifically as an overview without going overboard on the math. Virtually anyone with a knowledge of high school algebra, trigonometry, and physics will be able to read and absorb the vast majority of the material. The first 17 chapters provide fundamentals that can be used by air, ground, and sea-based personnel. Every chapter provides extensive fundamental materials and practical applications, using visual system exemplars to aid explanations. The unique full color layout is enhanced with an immense number of illustrations, figures, tables, and color photographs.
Key features:
- Modernized to reflect changes in the past 20 years including electronic scanning antennas and high resolution imaging.
- Completely covers the wide range of techniques employed in modern airborne and space borne radars.
- Fundamentals are applicable to ground and sea-based radar.
- Clear, understandable writing supplemented by extensive graphic illustration of concepts and offset boxes taking those concepts to the next level.
- Community reviewed by over 100 radar experts from organizations worldwide.
Hugh Griffiths received PhD and DSc(Eng) degrees from the University of London. From 1982-2006 he was with University College London. Since 2006 he has been Principal of the Defence College of Management and Technology, Cranfield University, which is part of the UK s Defence Academy. His research interests include radar and sonar systems, signal processing (particularly synthetic aperture radar and bistatic and multistatic radar), as well as antennas and antenna measurements. Griffiths has received numerous awards and he serves on the IEEE AESS Board of Governors, on the IEEE AESS Radar Systems Panel, and as Editor-in-Chief of IET Proceedings on Radar, Sonar and Navigation. He served as Chairman of the IEE International Radar Conference RADAR 2002 in Edinburgh, UK and he has advisory roles for the UK Ministry of Defence. He is a Fellow of the IEE and the IEEE and, in 1997, he was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2013, he won the prestigious AF Harvey prize from the IET, honoring an exceptional individual researcher for their outstanding achievements and promising future research. Christoper Baker is the Ohio Research Scholar in Integrated Sensor Systems at The Ohio State University. Until June 2011 he was the Dean and Director of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National University (ANU). Prior to this he held the Thales-Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of intelligent radar systems based at University College London. Professor Baker is the recipient of the IEE Mountbatten premium (twice), the IEE Institute premium and is a Fellow of the IET. He is a visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town, Cranfield University, University College London and Adelaide University. He has been actively engaged in radar system research since 1984 and is the author of over two hundred publications. His research interests include: coherent radar techniques, radar signal processing, radar signal interpretation, electronically scanned radar systems, natural echo locating systems and radar imaging. Dave Adamy is an internationally recognized expert in electronic warfare. He has 47 years experience as a systems engineer and program technical director, developing EW systems from DC to Light, deployed on platforms from submarines to space, with specifications from QRC to high reliability. For the last 26 years, he has run his own company, performing studies for the US Government and defense contractors. He has also presented dozens of courses in the US, Europe and Australia on Electronic Warfare and related subjects. He has published over 180 professional articles on Electronic Warfare, receiver system design and closely related subjects, including the popular EW101 column in the Journal of Electronic Defense. He has eleven books in print and is a past National President of the Association of Old Crows.
