Ridenour L.N. (ed.) Radar System Engineering

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1947. — 748 p. — (MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. Volume 1)This book is intended to serve as a general treatise and reference book on the design of radar systems. No apology seems to be needed for the fact that it deals primarily-though by no means altogether-with microwave pulse radar. Thousands of times as much work has gone into pulse radar as into any other kind, and the overwhehning majority of this work has been concerned with microwave pulse radar. The superiority of microwaves for almost all radar purposes is now clear.
The first eight chapters of this book are intended to provide an introduction to the field of radar and a general approach to the problems of
system design. Chapters 9 through 14 take up the leading design considerations for the various important components that make up a radar
set. These chapters are so thorough in their treatment that Chap. 15, which gives two fairly detailed examples of actual system design, can be
quite brief. Chapters 16 and 17 take up two new and important ancillary techniques that are not dealt with fully elsewhere in the Series: moving target indication and the transmission of radar displays to a remote indicator by radio means.