Understanding Radar Systems

Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company Europe.
1999 SciTech Publishing, Inc.
Raleigh, NC 27613
1992 by McGraw-Hill International (UK) Limited.
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ISBN 1-891121-05-7
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About the Author
Dr. Simon Kingsley is a lecturer at Sheffield University. He specializes in the development of radar techniques, mainly for remote sensing.
Dr. Shaun Quegan is Director of the Sheffield Centre for Earth Observation Science and leads its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Research Group.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to those companies who supplied us with details of their systems and especially to Marconi who also supplied the images on the front cover.
The meteor scattering theory in Chapter 9 derives from information supplied by Dr John Milsom (GEC-Marconi Research Centre) who continues to be a fount of knowledge concerning propagation and communications.
Other researchers, past and present, at GEC-MRC who deserve special mentions are Matthew Radford, who provided helpful and informative comments on the draft manuscript and Trevor Blake and John Dawson for their contributions on...