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A
Amplitude detection 9
Amplitude-frequency response 86
Analogue-to-digital converter 2
Analytical signal 2 20 21
Angular position 60
Angular velocity 2 60 74
Approximate methods 74 75
Autocorrelation function 70

B
Bandwidth factor 7 41
Born’s procedure 77
Boundary conditions 74 75

C
Calibration of meter 177
Causality principle 19 65
Causality violation 18
Circular polarisation 62
Class of radio signals 8 13
Compensation of polarisation distortions 187

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Complex
envelope 4 21 28
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variation rate 30
plane 2 40
signal 18 21
value envelope 9
Complex-valued functions 19
Conservative system 34
Coordinate parameter 3
Coordinate systems 131 139 141
Correlation integral 18
Creeping wave 105
Cross correlation function 9
Current spectrum 33 65 102

D
Decomposition method 101
Delay invariance criterion 87
Derivative maxima 39
Detection 18
Differential equations 107
Differentiation
condition 39
operator 42
procedure 25
step 70
Diffraction
coefficient 79
component 6 96 98

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Diffraction (Continued)
localisation principle 79
Directivity pattern 89
Discontinuities function 83
Discontinuities point 23
Discrete measure 11

E
Edge wave 77
impulse 90
method 78
Effective frequency 12
Effective signal duration 17
Eiconal 80
Elliptical polarisation 62
Energy potential 148
Envelope of pulse model 7
Error in the signal description 29
Expansion in power series 124

F
Far-scattered field 77
Finite signal model 34
Focused aperture synthesis 211
Fractional
bandwidth 4
energy 66
Fraunhoffer diffraction 77
Frequency
dualism 6 78

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Frequency (Continued)
linear modulation 7
response 5 28 107
response of polarisation transforming
filter 128
Fresnel integral 79

G
Gauss-Markov theorem 164
Generalised
characteristics 7
complex plane 2
detection 42 43
envelope 2 35
instantaneous frequency 2 33 34
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phase 2 36
Geometrical optics 78
Geometrical theory of diffraction 74 75
Gibbs phenomenon 17
Gibbsian transient process 23
Glittering point model 125
Global regularisation 209 210
Green’s
formula 75
functions 74 78

H
Heaviside function 29 91
High order discontinuities 103

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High resolution radars 2
High resolution signals 4
Hilbert
signal 20
transform 2 19
Hodograph 34
Hybrid solution 82

I
Ideal phaser 20
Ill-posed problem 48 49
Impulse
decomposition 99
matrix 63
response 63 107 118
Incident pulse 1 90
Infinite spectral density 17
Input-output differential equations 121
Instantaneous
frequency 31
power 12
spectrum 33 65
Integral error estimation 31
Integral transformations 10
Integration surface 76
Iterative procedure 44

K
Kennaugh-Moffatt identity 114
Kirchhoff’s approximation 74 77

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L
Least squares approximation 164
Light region 77
Line of a given level 70
Line of an identical waveform 89
Linear
operator 33
polarisation 61
Local
discrete waveform measure 68
effective scattering length 132
interaction 10
radar characteristic 4
radar response 129
regularisation 197 200
responses 110
scattered centre 6 78 101
variation of the polarisaion plane 65

M
Main oscillator 8
Matched filter 10
Mathematical models of meters 140 145 147
Maxwell’s equations 74
Measurement equations 156
Measuring and data processing system 137
Mirror reflection 77
Modulation function 60
Moment evaluation 17

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N
Narrowband
approximation 21
modulation 21
signal 3
Natural components 120
Near zone wave 73
Noise spectral density 11
Noncoordinate data 3 4
Nondistorting circuit 27
Nonmonochromatic signal 4
Nonparametric description 110 111
Nonplane incident wave 96
Nonstationary properties 42
Numerical methods 79

O
Odd function 15
Oscillating signal model 24
Operator 33
Origin point 56

P
Parametric
description 11 116
model 120
Phase plane 2 34 40
Phase-frequency response 86
Physical optics
approximation 77

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Physical optics (Continued)
methods 74
Physical theory of diffraction 78
Polarisation
component 60
invariants 126
plane 60
time variation 63
properties 125
Polarised vector signal 2
Poles of transfer function 123
Precursor duration 90
Preliminary processing 176
Primary diffraction component
Profile function 114
Pseudosolution 167 168
Pulse
origin and end points 70
phase structure 90

Q
Quadrature component 21 41
Quasihalfperiod 7 37 44

R
Radar target 3
Radiated field structure 92
Radio pulse 1
Ray path difference 80

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Rayleigh
frequency range 5 78
postulate 8 96
Real finite function 11
Real window function 66
Reduction in narrowband case 40
Regularisation
method 73 165 170
procedure 57
Repeated diffractions 81
Resolving power 10
Resonance frequency range 4 78
Restored impulse response 102
Rise time 22
Radar target responses 137
Ramp response 107
Rational fractional approximation 124
Ridge estimate 171
Regularising spatial processing 217

S
Sampling oscilloscope 1
Scalar signal waveform 63
Scattered signal waveform 96
Scattering centre size 4
Secondary diffraction component 91
Secondary processing 211 225
Semi-shadow
region 82 89

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Semi-shadow (Continued)
zone 81
Sequent 67
Shadow region 77
Short-time Fourier transform 65
Sign function 20
Signal
bandwidth factor 4
processing 175 180 197
segment 67
with arbitrary modulation 31
Singularity expansion method 109 165 167
Smooth response 100
Sommerfeld problem 82
Space resolution 3
Space-frequency
argument 84
filter 85
parameter 80
region 81
Spatial inverse processing 214
Spectral density function 5
Spectrum bandwidth truncation 23
State-variables differential equations 120
Step
function 22
response 99 107
Subclass of radio signals 13
System of linear algebraic equations 165

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T
Tangents 24
Target
description 107
electrical size 5
image 1
reflected signal 1
shape 3
size 3
Taylor series 28
Time
domain analysis 2
GTD version 2
resolution 70
scale coefficient 69 87 88
90 99
sidelobes 7 8 67
Time-frequency plane 3 66
Time-space function 81
Total
response 110
signal 17
Transfer function 107 108
Transition zone 81
Truncated impulse response 100
Two-dimensional model 34
Types of meters 137

U
Ultrawideband signals 1 4 17

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V
Variation rate 40
Vector representation 143
Vicinity of discontinuity points 23
Videopulse spectral density 8

W
Wavelet transform 2 69
kernel 69
Wideband signal 4
Wavenumber 5 74 80
Waveform
definition 39 104
fine structure 105
Window
function 66
time position 66
duration 66

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