Radar Signal Processing and Adaptive Systems

Ramon Nitzberg is President of RAYN Associates in Fayetteville, New York, and worked previously as the Senior Consulting Engineer for Advanced Development Radar Engineering at General Electric. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, and is a member of the IEEE.

• Radar system fundamentals; detection of targets in clutter; transmit waveforms; waveforms and matched filtering; Fourier transforms; the LFM pulse; very wideband LFM waveforms; line antenna; planar antenna; linear phased array; sidelobe reduction weighting; target detection in noise; target detection in clutter; clutter discriminants; Doppler filtering techniques; A/D quantization affects; Doppler filter banks; sidelobe cancellers (SLC); constant false alarm rate (CFAR) processor; clutter map CFAR; multiple sidelobe cancellors; signal-to-interference-plus-ratio maximization; upper-resolution; array angle resolution; the BURG algorithm; polarization rejection of clutter; reflective wave polarization.