High Frequency Over-the-Horizon Radar: Fundamental Principles, Signal Processing, and Practical Applications

THE MOST COMPLETE GUIDE TO HIGH FREQUENCY OVER-THE-HORIZON RADAR SYSTEMS

Written by a leading global expert on the topic, High Frequency Over-the-Horizon Radar provides in-depth coverage of the signal processing models and techniques that have significantly advanced OTH radar technology. This pioneering work describes the fundamental principles of OTH radar design and operation, and then delves into the mathematical modeling of HF signals received by actual OTH radar systems based on experimental data analysis.

Numerous examples illustrate the practical application of modern adaptive signal processing techniques to real and simulated OTH radar data. This is an invaluable resource for researchers, engineers, and practitioners working withOTH radar systems and technologies.

Coverage includes:

• Skywave propagation
• System characteristics
• Conventional processing
• Surface-wave radar
• Wave-interference model
• Statistical signal model
• HF channel simulator
• Interference cancellation analysis
• Adaptive beamforming
• Space-time adaptive processing
• Generalized likelihood-ratio test (GLRT) detection schemes
• Blind waveform estimation