Signal Processing Fundamentals and Applications for Communications and Sensing Systems

Written for readers with backgrounds in physics, engineering, or mathematics who wish to learn about the detection and extraction of information from radio-frequency (RF), acoustic, or optical signals in the presence of noise, this volume covers the fundamentals of receivers; a review of probability; a review of noise and random processes; continuous and discrete-time signals; detection of signals in noise; coherent and noncoherent detection and processing; parameter estimation and applications; waveform analysis, range-Doppler resolution, and ambiguity; large time bandwidth waveforms; generalized coherent and noncoherent detection and processing; and systems considerations. An appendix presents a table of values of the error function. The author is a staff scientist in the aerospace communications systems division of a large corporation.