Bibliography of Relevant Radar Texts

Barton, David K., Modern Radar System Analysis, Artech House, Inc., NY (1988). A systems approach to radar by a very competent radar engineer. Earlier works by this author are plagued by typesetting errors; this work seems much better in this regard.

Bowen, E. G., Radar Days, Adam Hilger, Bristol, 1987. A personal and technical account of the development of airborne radar in Britain and America during World War II, and of the scientific outgrowth is this work in subsequent years.

Brookner, E. (ed.), Aspects of Modern Radar, Artech House, Inc., NY (1988). A collection of modern writings on the subject, assembled by a lead analyst from Raytheon.

Buderi, R. The Invention that Changed the World: How a Small Group..., Simon & Schuster, NY, (1996). Comprehensive history of the Radiation Laboratory contributions to the early development of radar in World War II, and subsequent developments on this foundation.

Cook, E. C. and M. Bernfield, Radar Signals, Academic Press, NY (1967). Similar to Rihaczek (below) emphasizing waveform analysis and application.

Curlander, J. C. and McDonough, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Wiley Interscience (1991). A summary of SAR principles and implementations. Good if wordy introduction to SAR processing.

Elachi, C., Spaceborne Radar Remote Sensing: Applications and Techniques, IEEE Press, 1988. Summary review of many aspects of imaging radar, with lots of application examples. Many equations are presented rather than derived, but a useful reference.

Evans, J. V. and T. Hagfors, Radar Astronomy, McGraw-Hill, NY (1968). Covers fundamental aspects of radar, especially those relevant to radar observations of solar system objects. Useful material on interpreting radar echoes from rough surfaces is included as well as radar results for the inner solar system. A seminal work in this subject.

Fuhs, Allen E., Radar Cross Section Lectures, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, NY. Lecture notes from a course at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California. Mainly the basics with applications to estimating radar cross sections of aircraft and ships.

Harger, R. O., Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems: Theory and Design, Academic Press, NY (1970). The most detailed treatment of SAR in book form. Harger takes a system engineer's approach which electrical engineers may find appealing. Physicists probably won't like it.

Helstrom, C.W., Statistical Theory of Signal Detection, Pergamon, London (1960). Comprehensive treatment of signal detection built up from fundamentals. Excellent.

Hovanessian, S. A., Introduction of Synthetic Aperture Radar, Artech House, Dedham, MA (1980). Synthetic aperture radar is explained in simple and useful terms. Another hurried attempt at writing for Artech House; covers the subject adequately with an industry point of view.

von Kroge, H., GEMA: Birthplace of German Radar and Sonar, Institute of Physics, Bristol (2000). Rare exposition of development of radar and sonar in Germany during WWII and subsequently. Needed for a well-rounded perspective on the development of radar.

OSR/NDRC, Propagation of Short Radio Waves, Ed. Donald E. Kerr, McGraw-Hill, NY (1951). Volume 13 in the famous "Radiation Laboratoy Series" based on work in the years 1940-1945. Very strong presentation of the fundamentals. More recent work best found in journal literature.

Leberl, Franz W., Radargrammetric Image Processing, Artech House, Inc., NY (1990). A comprehensive work on techniques for utilization of synthetic aperture radar images. Covers important subjects such as radar stereogrammetry not found elsewhere. Watch our for the typos in the math.

Levanon, N., Radar Principles, Wiley Interscience, NY (1988). Used as the text for EE 254 in '91-92. Fairly comprehensive introductory treatment, but lacking in continuity, clarity, and motivation.

Mensa, D. L., High Resolution Radar Imaging, Artech House, Dedham, MA (1981). A concise book on the principles of synthetic aperture and other forms of imaging radar.

Nathanson, R. E., Radar Design Principles, McGraw-Hill, NH (1969). General coverage book on radar emphasizing design considerations.

Rihaczek, A. W., Principles of High Resolution Radar, McGraw-Hill, NY (1969). Pursues waveforms, ambiguity diagrams, and resolution in detail. This work summarizes many important results previously published by its author in journal papers. It is available as a paperback from MARK Resources, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90291 at an attractive price.

Ruck, G. T., et al. (eds.), Radar Cross Section Handbook (2 vols.), Plenum Press, NY (1970). Still the best collection of material on estimating radar cross-sections for known objects and interpreting radar cross-section data from unknown or partially-known objects.

Skolnik, M. I. (ed.), Radar Handbook, McGraw-Hill (1970). Chapters by various authors cover a vast number of topics. A 'telephone book' class reference that has something for everyone in self-contained chapters on the order of 50 pages each. It is not a textbook, however.

Skolnik, M. I., Introduction to Radar Systems, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, NY (1980). Comprehensive work by head of radar section at Naval Research Laboratory. Very complete descriptions of standard designs with discussion of engineering principles underlying hardware realization. Good reference source for the historical literature and for understanding standard practices. A drawback is the almost exclusive focus on military systems.

Skolnik, M.I., Radar Applications, IEEE Press, NY (1988).

Stone, W.R., Radar Cross Sections of Complex Objects, IEEE Press, NY (1989).

Toomay, J.C., Radar Principles for the Non-Specialist, 2nd ed., Van Nostrand Reinhold (1989). Nice little introduction written by a non-specialist for the non-specialist. Has useful insights and explanations as to how things work.

Wehner, D. R. High Resolution Radar, Artech House, Norwood, MA (1987). Pretty good, though it is not as detailed as the one by Rihaczek (1969) above.

Willis, N.J., Bistatic Radar, Artech House, Inc., NY (1991). Only book length work on subject of bistatic radar systems. As in Skolnik, the focus is on military systems with a good overview of many issues and problems associated with implementation of radars with well-separated transmitter and receiver.

Woodward, P.M., Probability and Information Theory, with Applications to Radar, Pergamon, London (1953). Seminal work on radar detection from information theory viewpoint. Includes early appreciation and application of Gabor ambiguity function to radar problem. Excellent, very readible. A classic!

Books on Reserve Terman Library

Barton, David K., Modern Radar System Analysis, Artech House, Inc., NY (1988).

Bowen, E. G., Radar Days, Adam Hilger, Bristol (1987).

Brookner, E. (ed.), Aspects of Modern Radar, Artech House, Inc., NY (1988).

Buderi, R. The Invention that Changed the World: How a Small Group..., Simon & Schuster, NY, (1996).

Curlander, J. C. and McDonough, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Wiley Interscience (1991).

Evans, J. V. and T. Hagfors, Radar Astronomy, McGraw-Hill, NY (1968).

Fuhs, Allen E., Radar Cross Section Lectures, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, NY (19xx).

Harger, R. O., Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems: Theory and Design, Academic Press, NY (1970).

von Kroge, H., GEMA: Birthplace of German Radar and Sonar, Institute of Physics, Bristol (2000).

Leberl, Franz W., Radargrammetric Image Processing, Artech House, Inc., NY (1990).

Levanon, N., Radar Principles, Wiley Interscience, NY (1988).

Mensa, D. L., High Resolution Radar Imaging, Artech House, Dedham, MA (1981).

Rihaczek, A. W., Principles of High Resolution Radar, McGraw-Hill, NY (1969).

Skolnik, M. I., Introduction to Radar Systems, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, NY (1980).

Skolnik, M.I., Radar Applications, IEEE Press, NY (1988).

Toomay, J.C., Radar Principles for the Non-Specialist, 2nd ed., Van Nostrand Reinhold (1989).

Willis, N.J., Bistatic Radar, Artech House, Inc., NY (1991).

Woodward, P.M., Probability and Information Theory, with Applications to Radar, Pergamon, London (1953).