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Radar Remote Sensing: Fundamentals and Geophysical Application of Imaging Radar Systems

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  • Cumming, I. and F. Wong, Digital Processing of Synthetic Aperture Radar Data, Artech House, Boston, 2005.

Other recommended texts

  • Curlander, J.C. and R.N. McDonough, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Wiley Interscience, New York, 1991.

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  • Franceschetti, G. and Lanari, R. Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing (Electronic Engineering Systems Series), CRC Press, 1999.

Other references

Books which may serve as useful references are listed below. These are on reserve in Terman Engineering Library, as well as the recommended text itself.

  • Bracewell, R. N., The Fourier Transform and Its Applications, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2nd edition, 1986.
  • Carrara, W.G., R.S. Goodman, and R.M. Majewski, Spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar: Signal Processing Algorithms, Artech House, Norwood, MA, 1995.
  • Curlander, J.C. and R.N. McDonough, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Wiley
  • Interscience, New York, 1991.
  • Elachi, C., Introduction to the physics and techniques of remote sensing, Wiley, New York, 1987.
  • Elachi, C., Spaceborne Radar Remote Sensing: Applications and Techniques, IEEE press, New York, 1988.
  • Goodman, J.W., Introduction to Fourier Optics, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1968.
  • Kraus, J.D. Radio Astronomy, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1966. (Later editions good also)
  • Peebles, P.Z, Radar Principles, Wiley Interscience, New York, 1998.
  • Press, W.H., B.P. Flannery, S.A. Teukolsky, and W.T. Vetterling, Numerical Recipes in C, the Art of Scientific Computing, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988. (Any of the Numerical Recipes series will have useful algorithm information)
  • Sabins, F., Remote Sensing, 3rd ed., Freeman, New York, 1996.
  • Soumekh, M., Fourier Array Imaging, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1994.

The following, though not on reserve, are also relevant and may be useful:

  • Cook, C.E., and M. Bernfeld, Radar Signals, Academic Press, New York, 1967.
  • Skolnik, M.I., Radar Handbook, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1970.