Publications Summary
Textbooks
I have authored and edited two popular radar textbooks:
I have authored and edited two popular radar textbooks:
Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing, third edition (FRSP)
(McGraw-Hill, 2022) I am the sole author of this text, now in its third edition. Developed in the graduate course ECE 6272 of the same name at Georgia Tech, it is written at a senior/first-year graduate level. FRSP covers all of the most common basic radar signal processing techniques for both pulsed and continuous wave (CW) radars, such as signal modeling, threshold detection, pulse compression, Doppler processing, and target position measurement and tracking. It also provides introductions to the advanced methods of synthetic aperture (imaging) radar, adaptive beamforming, and space-time adaptive processing. Much more information, including the table of contents, sample chapters, errata, simple MATLAB demonstration codes, and supplemental technical notes are available at the FRSP support website www.radarsp.com. |
Principles of Modern Radar: Basic Principles (POMR:BP) (SciTech Publishing, 2010; subsequently acquired by IET)
I am the lead editor and an author of multiple chapters in this text. POMR:BP is intended to become the new “Radar 101” text of choice. Ideal as both a text for newcomers and a reference for practitioners, it covers basic radar concepts and physics, subsystem technologies such as antennas and transmitters, and basic signal and data processing. POMR:BP provides an excellent foundation for the “Radar 102” level of Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing. It is also available bundled with the remaining two volumes of the Principles of Modern Radar series, on Advanced Techniques and Radar Applications. |
Book Chapters
I have also edited and contributed chapters to a few other books along the way:
I have also edited and contributed chapters to a few other books along the way:
- M. A. Richards, “Interferometric SAR and Coherent Exploitation”, Ch. 8 in W. L. Melvin and J. A. Scheers, eds., Principles of Modern Radar: Advanced Techniques. (SciTech Publishing (now IET), 2013)
- M. A. Richards, A. J. Gadient, and G. A. Frank, editors, Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997. This book was a result of the DARPA Rapid Prototyping of Application-Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program of the mid-1990s, for which I served as Program Manager during 1993-95.
- M. A. Richards, “Nonlinear Effects in Fourier Transform Processing” (Chapter 6) and “Motion Compensation Fundamentals” (Chapter 7) in J. A. Scheer and J.L. Kurtz, editors, Coherent Radar Performance Estimation. (Artech House, 1993)
Essay on the Relative Contributions of Moore’s Law and Algorithms to Digital Signal Processing
M. A. Richards and G. A. Shaw, “Chips, Architectures and Algorithms: Reflections on the Exponential Growth of Digital Signal Processing Capability”. Here we argue that improvements in the computational efficiency of algorithms have, over the long term, provided as much a boost in processing capability as Moore's Law-scale hardware improvements. A portion of the ideas in this paper were published at the 2004 High Performance Embedded computing (HPEC) Workshop.
M. A. Richards and G. A. Shaw, “Chips, Architectures and Algorithms: Reflections on the Exponential Growth of Digital Signal Processing Capability”. Here we argue that improvements in the computational efficiency of algorithms have, over the long term, provided as much a boost in processing capability as Moore's Law-scale hardware improvements. A portion of the ideas in this paper were published at the 2004 High Performance Embedded computing (HPEC) Workshop.
Research Paper Samples
I don’t do a lot of papers, but here are a handful that are representative of my non-classified research activities. A mostly complete list is in my biosketch, though I no longer keep that current.
I don’t do a lot of papers, but here are a handful that are representative of my non-classified research activities. A mostly complete list is in my biosketch, though I no longer keep that current.
- F. Shaban and M. A. Richards, “Application of L1 Reconstruction of Sparse Signals to Ambiguity Resolution in Radar”, Proceedings 2013 IEEE Radar Conference, May 2013.
- R, Kerr, D. P. Campbell, and M. A. Richards, “QR Decomposition on GPUs”, Proceedings 2nd Workshop on General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU), Washington, DC, March 8, 2009.
- R, Kerr, D. P. Campbell, and M. A. Richards, “GPU VSIPL: High-Performance VSIPL Implementation for GPUs”, Proceedings 2008 High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, September 23-25, 2008. (This is just a presentation, not a paper.)
- S. D. Fisher, M. A. Richards, and G. A. Showman, “An Inverse Polar Format Algorithm for Turntable Spotlight ISAR Imaging Systems Using Stepped Frequency Waveforms”, Proceedings 2004 IEEE Radar Conference, pp. 212-217, April, 2004.
- M. A. Richards, “Coherent Integration Loss due to White Gaussian Phase Noise”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 208-210, July 2003. (This simple little note seems to be turning into my most-cited work!)
- W. W. Bonifant, Jr., M. A. Richards, and J. H. McClellan, “Interferometric height estimation of the seafloor via synthetic aperture sonar in the presence of motion errors”, IEE Proceedings - Radar, Sonar, and Navigation, vol. 147, no.6, pp. 322-330, Dec. 2000. Based on Will Bonifant’s M.S. thesis at Georgia Tech, this paper was subsequently awarded the Clarke Griffiths Memorial Premium prize by IEE in July 2002
- R. W. Schafer, R. M. Mersereau, and M. A. Richards, "Constrained Iterative Reconstruction Algorithms", Proc. IEEE, vol. 69(4), pp. 432-450, April 1981. This is a widely-cited summary of much of the iterative reconstruction work done at Georgia Tech in the late 1970s.
- M. A. Richards, R. W. Schafer, and R. M. Mersereau, "An Experimental Study of the Effects of Noise on a Class of Iterative Deconvolution Algorithms", IEEE 1979 Intl. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 79), voo. 4, pp. 401-404. This was the first paper I ever published.