Radar is used to detect the presence of an object and measure its position and speed. It is possible to make a swift estimate of the performance of a radar system using some formulae.

Chapter Contents:

• 1.1 What is radar?
• 1.2 A simple radar explained
• 1.3 Overview of radar frequenices
• 1.4 Antenna gain
• 1.5 The radar equation
• 1.6 Accuracy and resolution
• 1.7 Integration time and the doppler shift
• 1.8 Summary
• 1.9 References
• 1.10 Further reading
• 1.11 Problems

Inspec keywords: object detection; radar theory

Other keywords: object detection; radar system performance

Subjects: Optical, image and video signal processing; Signal processing and detection; Radar and radiowave systems (military and defence); Radar theory