Microwave Engineering: Land & Space Radiocommunications

FOREWORD

It is always a great pleasure to see the introduction into the literature of a synthesis work which answers a great number of questions about a given topic; questions which often remain unanswered, either because they are hidden in bulky and difficult works, or because they were not published. The book of Gérard Barué has the immense merit to treat the various fundamental aspects of land and space radiocommunications. The constant concern of Gérard Barué to start by considering the basic physical phenomena makes the reading very pleasant. The reader never feels himself lost since the new concepts introduced take root in the fertile and well-known ground of classical physics. The student will find there an illustration of the effectiveness of the physical laws by concrete applications of these laws to the resolution of a priori complex problems. Thus, the establishment of a budget link, which needs to take into account several fields of physics (often taught in a disjoined way), reveals the approach that an engineer must control. The young engineer will see with pleasure how much its fundamental knowledge appears essential to the very concrete dimensioning of a telecom application. The senior engineer will find in the work of Gérard Barué an incomparable source of accurate ...