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Acknowledgments

I remain indebted to many colleagues and students who have helped me to learn
this material, write it, and try to debug it once written. Dr. Edward Reedy hired
me into my first job after graduation, at the Georgia Tech Research Institute
(GTRI), converting me from a speech processor to a radar signal processor. Dr.
Jim Echard had the unenviable task of actually overseeing that conversion as my

first supervisor and thus my first teacher of the basics of radar. In later years,
we jointly developed and taught the course that eventually became ECE 6272
and led to this book. GTRI colleagues too numerous to mention helped me along
the way, but a few on whom I have relied particularly merit special mention. Dr.
Byron Keel shared his expertise in waveforms and CFAR. Dr. Gregory
Showman led me to a greater understanding of SAR, in addition to being the

best person I know for talking about radar signal processing in general. Dr.
William Melvin introduced me to STAP. I am grateful to each of them for their
knowledge and friendship. Since the publication of the first edition, Drs. Keel,
Melvin, and Showman have continued to be excellent sources of new
information and sounding boards for my ideas on what to include and how to
present it. In addition, I have come to rely on several more colleagues. Mr.
James Scheer, formerly of GTRI and an outstanding all-around radar engineer,

has provided comments and a sanity check on a wide range of topics. Prof.
Nadav Levanon of Tel Aviv University, who wrote the lucid and concise text I
used for ECE 6272 before I developed this one, has exchanged many materials
and ideas with me over the last several years, for which I am grateful. Dr. W.
Dale Blair of GTRI has started to teach me about tracking through the courses

and books we have worked on together. My great thanks to all of them and many
more who have helped me throughout my career and the writing of this book.