The definitive book on bistatic radar provides a history of bistatic systems and alerts potential designers to non-working applications and dead-ends. While reviewing basic concepts and definitions, the text explains mathematical development of relationships such as geometry, Ovals of Cassini, dynamic range, isorange and isodoppler contours, and clutter doppler spread.

This book is a major extension of a chapter on bistatic radar written by the author for the Radar Handbook, 2nd edition, edited by Merrill Skolnik. It provides a history of bistatic systems that points out to potential designers the applications that have worked and the dead-ends not worth pursuing. The text reviews the basic concepts and definitions, and explains the mathematical development of relationships, such as geometry, Ovals of Cassini, dynamic range, isorange and isodoppler contours, target doppler, and clutter doppler spread.