EW Math Guide

Technical Sources and Further Reading

External references used to enrich the course explanations. The course text and diagrams are original training material.

Primary Technical References

NASA/JPL Imaging Radar Overview

Round-trip timing, radar pulse bandwidth, range resolution, SAR processing, polarization and backscatter interpretation.

NASA/JPL AIRSAR Radar Overview

NASA NISAR SAR Overview

Range and azimuth resolution, pulse bandwidth, phase, polarization and radar image interpretation.

NASA Science: Get to Know SAR

ITU-R P.676

International recommendation for attenuation by atmospheric gases and related propagation effects.

ITU-R Recommendation P.676

RadarTutorial.eu

Didactic reference for radar block diagrams, pulse radar timing, monostatic radar concepts, range measurement and radar equation teaching structure.

RadarTutorial.eu: Radar basics

Richard A. Poisel, Antenna Systems and Electronic Warfare Applications

Local reference supplied by the user. Used as a technical guide for EW antenna system taxonomy: wire antennas, aperture antennas, arrays, transmission lines, waveguides, monopulse, direction finding, log-periodic, spiral, patch and active antenna systems.

John D. Kraus and Ronald J. Marhefka, Antennas for All Applications

Local reference supplied by the user. Used as a broad antenna theory reference for radiation principles, antenna types, patterns, gain, polarization and practical antenna families.

Nicholas A. O'Donoughue, Emitter Detection and Geolocation for Electronic Warfare

Local reference supplied by the user. Used for the direction-finding module structure: detection, AOA estimation, Watson-Watt, Doppler DF, phase interferometry, array-based AOA, triangulation, TDOA, FDOA and geolocation error metrics.

Practical Geolocation for Electronic Warfare Using MATLAB

Local reference supplied by the user. Used as an applied guide for bearing-line geometry, estimator workflow, geolocation examples, error ellipses and practical DF/TDOA/FDOA processing concepts.

Emitter Detection and Geolocation References

Local references supplied by the user. Used for the deinterleaving module concepts: pulse descriptor words, detection-to-measurement flow, PRI analysis, emitter track formation and the connection between ELINT pulse sorting and DF/geolocation processing.