| Foreword | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Electromagnetic Back-Scattering from Targets | p. 6 |
| Radar Signal and Noise | p. 9 |
| Signal Waveforms | p. 9 |
| The SNR | p. 11 |
| Radar Ambiguity Function and Matched Filter | p. 13 |
| Radar Ambiguity Function | p. 13 |
| Matched Filter | p. 17 |
| Pulse Compression | p. 19 |
| Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging | p. 20 |
| Range Profile | p. 21 |
| Range Resolution | p. 21 |
| Cross-Range Resolution | p. 22 |
| References | p. 22 |
| Time-Frequency Transforms | p. 25 |
| Linear Time-Frequency Transforms | p. 26 |
| The STFT | p. 28 |
| The CWT | p. 32 |
| Adaptive Time-Frequency Representation | p. 33 |
| Bilinear Time-Frequency Transforms | p. 36 |
| The WVD | p. 37 |
| Cohen's Class | p. 39 |
| The TFDS | p. 42 |
| References | p. 45 |
| Detection and Extraction of Signal in Noise | p. 47 |
| Introduction | p. 48 |
| Time-Varying Frequency Filtering | p. 48 |
| SNR Improvement in the Time-Frequency Domain | p. 51 |
| SNR Definition Suitable for Signal Detection and Extraction | p. 54 |
| SNR in the Joint Time-Frequency Domain | p. 56 |
| CFAR Detection in the Joint Time-Frequency Domain | p. 57 |
| Signal Extraction in the Joint Time-Frequency Domain | p. 61 |
| Time-Frequency Expansion and Reconstruction | p. 61 |
| Time-Frequency Masking and Signal Extraction | p. 62 |
| References | p. 63 |
| Time-Frequency Analysis of Radar Range Profiles | p. 65 |
| Electromagnetic Phenomenology Embedded in Back-Scattered Data | p. 66 |
| Time-Frequency Representation of Range Profiles | p. 70 |
| Application of High-Resolution Time-Frequency Techniques to Scattering Data | p. 77 |
| Use of the CWT | p. 77 |
| Use of the TFDS | p. 79 |
| Windowed Superresolution Algorithm | p. 81 |
| Adaptive Gaussian Representation | p. 83 |
| Extraction of Dispersive Scattering Features from Radar Imagery Using Time-Frequency Processing | p. 85 |
| References | p. 89 |
| Time-Frequency-Based Radar Image Formation | p. 93 |
| Radar Imaging of Moving Targets | p. 94 |
| Standard Motion Compensation and Fourier-Based Image Formation | p. 102 |
| Time-Frequency-Based Image Formation | p. 104 |
| Radar Imaging of Maneuvering Targets | p. 107 |
| Dynamics of Maneuvering Targets | p. 107 |
| Radar Imaging of Maneuvering Target Using Time-Frequency-Based Image Formation | p. 108 |
| Radar Imaging of Multiple Targets | p. 113 |
| Multiple-Target Resolution Analysis | p. 113 |
| Time-Frequency-Based Phase Compensation for Multiple Targets | p. 117 |
| Time-Frequency-Based Image Formation for Radar Imaging of Multiple Targets | p. 119 |
| Summary | p. 120 |
| References | p. 120 |
| Motion Compensation in ISAR Imaging Using Time-Frequency Techniques | p. 123 |
| Motion Compensation Algorithms | p. 124 |
| Time-Frequency-Based Motion Compensation | p. 126 |
| Estimating Phase Using Adaptive Time-Frequency Projection | p. 128 |
| Motion Error Elimination | p. 129 |
| Motion Compensation Examples of Simulated and Measured Data | p. 131 |
| Presence of 3D Target Motion | p. 135 |
| References | p. 144 |
| SAR Imaging of Moving Targets | p. 147 |
| Radar Returns of Moving Targets | p. 148 |
| Range Curvature | p. 149 |
| Clutter Bandwidth | p. 150 |
| Analysis of Radar Returns from Moving Targets | p. 152 |
| The Effect of Target Motion on SAR Imaging | p. 155 |
| Detection and Imaging of Moving Targets | p. 157 |
| Single-Aperture Antenna SAR | p. 157 |
| Multiple-Antenna SAR | p. 161 |
| SAR Imaging of Moving Targets Using Time-Frequency Transforms | p. 165 |
| Estimation of Doppler Parameters Using Time-Frequency Transforms | p. 166 |
| Time-Frequency-Based SAR Image Formation for Detection of Moving Targets | p. 168 |
| References | p. 170 |
| Time-Frequency Analysis of Micro-Doppler Phenomenon | p. 173 |
| Vibration-Induced Micro-Doppler | p. 174 |
| Time-Frequency Signature of a Vibrating Scatterer | p. 177 |
| An Example of Micro-Doppler Signatures of Moving Targets | p. 179 |
| Rotation-Induced Micro-Doppler | p. 181 |
| Rotor Blade Motion | p. 181 |
| Radar Returns from Rotor Blades | p. 181 |
| Time-Domain Signatures of Rotation-Induced Modulations | p. 184 |
| Frequency-Domain Signatures | p. 188 |
| Time-Frequency Signatures | p. 190 |
| References | p. 192 |
| Trends in Time-Frequency Transforms for Radar Applications | p. 193 |
| Applications of Adaptive Time-Frequency Transforms | p. 193 |
| Back-Scattering Feature Extraction | p. 194 |
| Image Formation | p. 195 |
| Motion Compensation | p. 195 |
| Moving Target Detection | p. 196 |
| Micro-Doppler Analysis | p. 198 |
| References | p. 199 |
| List of Acronyms | p. 203 |
| About the Authors | p. 205 |
| Index | p. 207 |
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