Radar is a legal necessity for the safe navigation of merchant ships, and within vessel traffic services is indispensable to the operation of major ports and harbours. Target Detection by Marine Radar concentrates solely on civil marine operations and explains how marine surveillance radars detect their targets. The book is fully illustrated and contains worked examples to help the reader understand the principles underlying radar operation and to quantify the importance of factors such as the technical features of specific equipment, the weather, target reflection properties, and the ability of the operator. The precision with which targets are positioned on the radar screen and with which their progress is tracked or predicted depends on how definitely they have been detected, therefore a whole chapter has been devoted to the issue of accuracy. The various international regulations governing marine radar are examined, a brief historical background is given to modern day practice and the book doses with a discussion of the ways in which marine radar may develop to meet future challenges.
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This book covers the various international regulations governing marine radar, a brief historical background is given to modern day practice and the book closes with a discussion of ways in which marine radar may develop to meet future challenges.
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Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The system and the transmitterChapter 3: Radar receiverChapter 4: Echo strength in free spaceChapter 5: Environmental effects on propagationChapter 6: Multipath of point targetsChapter 7: Passive point targetsChapter 8: Active targetsChapter 9: Multipath factor of extended targetsChapter 10: Extended target reflections; ships and coastsChapter 11: Noise, clutter and interferenceChapter 12: DetectionChapter 13: Accuracy of position and trackChapter 14: Spreadsheet calculationsChapter 15: Worked examplesChapter 16: Future possibilitiesAppendices
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780863413599
Publisert
2004-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Institution of Engineering and Technology
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
700
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