Stimson's is written specifically as an overview without going overboard on the math. Virtually anyone with a knowledge of high school algebra, trigonometry, and physics will be able to read and absorb the vast majority of the material. The first 17 chapters provide fundamentals that can be used by air, ground, and sea-based personnel. Every chapter provides extensive fundamental materials and practical applications, using visual system exemplars to aid explanations. The unique full color layout is enhanced with an immense number of illustrations, figures, tables, and color photographs.

Basic concepts --Approaches to implementation -- Representative applications -- Radio waves and alternating current signals -- A nonmathematical approach to radar -- Preparatory math for radar -- Choice of radio frequency -- Directivity and the antenna beam -- Electronically scanned array antennas -- Electronically scanned array design -- Pulsed operation -- Detection range -- The range equation : what it does and doesn't tell us -- Radar receivers and digitization -- Measuring range and resolving in range -- Pulse compression and high-resolution radar -- Frequency-modulated continuous wave ranging -- The Doppler Effect -- The spectrum of a pulsed signal -- The pulsed spectrum unveiled -- Doppler sensing and digital filtering -- Measuring range-rate -- Sources and spectra of ground return -- Effect of range and doppler ambiguities on ground clutter -- Representing clutter -- separating ground moving targets from clutter -- PRF and ambiguities -- Low PRF operation -- Medium PRF operation -- High PRF operation -- Automatic tracking -- Radar and resolution -- Imaging methods -- SAR image formation and processing -- SAR system design -- Electronic warfare terms and concepts -- Electronic warfare support -- Electronic attack -- Electronic protection -- Decoys -- Low probability of intercept (LPI) -- antenna radar cross section reduction -- advanced processor architectures -- bistatic radar -- Distributed radar and mimo radar -- Radar waveforms : advanced concepts -- Target classification -- Emerging radar trends -- Airborne early warning and control -- Reconnaissance & surveillance -- Space based radar systems -- Fighter & attack.