Preface
Radar location and radio navigation today are inherent attributes of modern science
and technology, and its fundamental principles find the widest and multiple
application even far from radio-engineering areas of human activity such as
medicine, biology or meteorology. That is what accounts for a large number of
regularly published monographs, books, academic papers and popular publication
and contributions dedicated to a given problems of radar, radio navigation and its
application.
The rarer event is a publication of academic books, oriented for higher
educational institutions, on fundamentals of radar location and radio navigation,
and on corresponding equipment. Here, it is worthwhile to mention those Russian
scientists by tutorial materials of which the radar location and radio navigation
were comprehended by all who is connected with these areas of science and
technology. Among them are Profs. P. A. Bakulev, G. B. Belotserkovskiy, P. I.
Dudnik, G. S. Kondratenkov, A. G. Saybel, U. G. Sosulin, E. G. Trubitsin, M. I.
Finkelshtein.
The recommended to readers study guide, eventually written by students of the
listed pleiad of scientists, first of all reflects a specific character of radar location and
radio navigation problems and tasks as applied foremost to tasks and needs of air
and maritime transport.
The study guide is divided into two parts: theoretical basics of radar location
and radio navigation on the one side, and corresponding to its equipment, from the
other side. The paper represents both commonly known approaches, stated in earlier
published study books and tutorials, and original authorship material obtained during
performance of theoretical and experimental works and at handling of functioning
radar location and radio navigation equipment.
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