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Preface

This second edition of Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing shares with
the first the goal of providing in-depth coverage of fundamental topics in radar
signal processing from a digital signal processing perspective. The techniques
and interpretations of linear systems, filtering, sampling, and Fourier analysis
are used throughout to provide a modern and unified tutorial approach. The

coverage includes a full range of the basic signal processing techniques on
which virtually all modern radar systems rely, including topics such as target
and interference models, matched filtering, waveform design, Doppler
processing, threshold detection, and measurement accuracy. Introductions are
provided to track filtering and the advanced topics of synthetic aperture imaging
and space-time adaptive array processing to provide a bridge to more in-depth

texts on these topics.
The first edition was published in 2005 with the intention of filling what I
perceived to be a void in the technical literature on radar. There existed at that
time a number of excellent books on radar systems in general (e.g., Skolnik,
Edde) that provided an excellent qualitative and descriptive introduction to
radar systems as a whole and could be enthusiastically recommended as first
texts for anyone interested in the topic. Indeed, having worked on speech

enhancement in graduate school, I read the first edition of Skolnik’s
Introduction to Radar Systems when I accepted a job in radar, hoping to avoid
appearing completely ignorant on my first day at the new job. (It didn’t work,
through no fault of Skolnik.) Some of these texts (e.g., Peebles, Mahafza)
provided greater quantitative depth on basic radar systems and some signal

processing topics. At the same time, a number of good quality texts were
available on advanced topics in radar signal processing, principally synthetic
aperture imaging (Jakowatz et al., Carrara et al., Soumekh) and space-time
adaptive processing (Klemm, Guerci). The problem, in my view, was the
existence of a substantial gap between the qualitative systems books and the
quantitative advanced signal processing books. Specifically, I believed the
radar community lacked a current text providing a concise, unified, and modern
treatment of the basic radar signal processing techniques mentioned above on

which these more advanced methods are founded. It was my hope that this book
would fill that gap.
The reception accorded the first edition since its publication has been
gratifying. I have received many very kind and encouraging comments and it has
been adopted for use by a number of universities and companies. I believe it has

largely been successful in meeting its goals. Its success, however, also quickly
brought to light many ways in which the book could be improved.
New books continue to appear, particularly the excellent Principles of