Practical Geolocation for Electronic Warfare Using MATLAB
By Nicholas O’Donoughue
Having recently finished watching the new Masters of the Air series, while reading “Practical Geolocation for Electronic Warfare Using MATLAB,” it was easy to draw parallels between the World War II European air campaign and modern electronic warfare (EW). The skies of World War II weren’t a new frontier at the time, but the preceding exponential rise in flight technology brought gravity to it that had never existed. Similarly, modern processing and reliance on electronics have made EW indispensable. All that is not to say Dr. O’Donoughue has written a book on tactics or strategy — no, the situation is clearly out of scope, giving way to the underlying processes and algorithms — but the applications live in your mind as you read, motivating understanding of the material. Locations become helicopters or satellites, coordinate systems become battlefields or orbits.
Modern geolocation is presented as an algorithmic version of systems engineering. Topics are wide and varied, including linear algebra, coordinate systems, programming, transforms, error estimation and more. Readers in any technical field will benefit from this book; the concepts collected have wide applications, are presented clearly and have many helpful citations. I was happy to grab an idea or two for EM-analysis preconditioners, for example.
Concepts are well-illustrated with figures and code examples, and Artech House has kindly printed the hardcover book in four-color, which makes it easier to parse. Each chapter highlights key concepts with exercises at the end, and the length, content and pace are all well-managed. This would be a great companion for a 400- or 500-level course on related subject matter, and not necessarily microwave-related. The digital version also has videos, and the GitHub site is of special note. Shared with a related book from the same author, “Emitter Detection and Geolocation for Electronic Warfare” (2019), it has a set of MATLAB code, including examples. This is a fine book that I would recommend to anyone whose curiosity is piqued by the title.
Review by Brian Rautio
ISBN: 9781630818883
Pages: 220
Copyright: 2022
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