Foliage Penetration Radar - Detection and Characterization of Objects under Trees

This book covers all aspects of foliage penetration (FOPEN) radar for both airborne military systems and Earth resource mapping. Military radar systems engineers will discover methods to use ultrawideband waveform design and analysis for generating signals that do not interfere with emergency or flight safety frequencies and adaptive processing techniques to reconstruct signals in a dense radio frequency interference environment. They will also learn the characteristics of clutter, foliage scattering and propagation that affects the detection and characterization of vehicles, buildings, and terrain features that are present under trees. In addition, extensive information is given on image formation processing with an emphasis on use of real time high performance processing, change detection, and automatic target detection and classification. This book will be the foundation reference for Earth resource and remote monitoring planners as they apply FOPEN radar for crop monitoring, land mine remediation, creating digital maps under trees and many other uses that can benefit mankind.