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This expanded, revised and updated new edition covers two major topics: low observables and low probability of intercept (LO and LPI) of Radars and data links, collectively sometimes called stealth. Each chapter includes examples, student exercises, references and counterpart appendices.

This book explores how technology can facilitate social distancing in order to better manage pandemics and future outbreaks. The authors present key concepts, models and practical technology-based social distancing scenarios, and then enabling technologies including machine learning, AI, computer vision, blockchain and big data.

A hands-on, case study-backed reference of control strategies, fault classification mechanisms, and reliability analysis methods for PV modules, power electronic converters, and grid-connected PV systems. Written by an international team of researchers with excellent backgrounds in academia and industry.

In this edited book, the authors delineate the challenges of building accountability into the Internet of Things and solutions for delivering on this critical societal challenge. They explain how the accountability principle impacts IoT development by presenting empirical studies of accountability in action.

This book presents a discussion of evolving digital technologies, such as smart phones, assisted living, and innovative digitally based services that are helping to deliver quality, cost-effective and widely accessible healthcare for the elderly.

This book considers advanced real-time optimisation methods for 5G and beyond networks. The authors discuss the fundamentals, technologies, practical questions and challenges around real-time optimisation of 5G and beyond communications, providing insights into relevant theories, models and techniques.

This edited book covers space robotics and autonomous systems (space RAS) from technologies to advances and applications including sensing and perception, mobility, manipulations, high-level autonomy, human-robot interaction, multi-modal interaction, modelling and simulation, and safety and trust.

Wind power is a pillar of low emission energy systems. Many recent advances have been achieved in multiple aspects of utility-scale wind power. This structured review conveys recent progress involving aerodynamics, layout, control, environmental concerns, forecasting and intermittency, combination with PV and offshore farms.

Deploying lithium-ion batteries depends on cost-effective materials with high energy and power density to facilitate lower weight. Si-based anode materials offer superior storage capacity. This reference presents current knowledge about the use of silicon and its derivates for Li-ion batteries.

Wide Bandgap semiconductor devices offer higher efficiency, smaller size, less weight, and longer lifetime, with applications in power grid electronics and electromobility. This book describes the state of advanced packaging solutions for novel wide-band-gap semiconductors, specifically silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs and diodes.

This book from an international, world-class team is an up-to-date account of control and architectural design of DC distribution systems and microgrids. Ideal for engineers, academics and research students, it covers DC architecture and control, protection, microgrid standards, microgrid-based residential buildings and electric-vehicle charging technology. Practical details are given for real-world systems. It covers coordinated control design for intelligent real-time control of DC distribution systems, and explains stabilisation concepts.

Based on the authors' years of extensive experience, this is an authoritative overview of Wide Bandgap (WBG) device characterization. It provides essential tools to assist researchers, advanced students and practicing engineers in performing both static and dynamic characterization of WBG devices, particularly those based on using silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors. The book presents practical considerations for real applications, and includes examples of applying the described methodology.

This book focuses exclusively on bifacial photovoltaics, a topic for which there is a distinct lack of available, structured information and thus meets an increasing need. The book provides an overview of the history, status and future of bifacial PV technology with a focus on crystalline silicon technology, covering the areas of cells, modules, and systems. In addition, topics like energy yield simulations and bankability are addressed.

This book presents comprehensive coverage of new research into sea clutter characterisation and modelling, radar performance prediction and maritime target detection. The book also includes a summary of sea-clutter scattering characteristics and datasets provided that can be used for modelling.

A compelling account of the life of one of the great pioneers of electrical science Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925). He showed how to analyse circuit, how to rid telephone lines of distortion and interpreted Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism in a way that working engineers and physicists could understand.

This book is devoted to the specific problems of electromagnetic field (EMF) measurements in the near field and to the analysis of the main factors which impede accuracy in these measurements.

This book discusses electromagnetic waves and antennas used as diagnostic tools and therapeutic techniques for applications in cancer detection, stroke event detection, GI diagnostics, and cardiovascular risk predictions. It discusses electromagnetic devices, wireless implants, and in vitro and in vivo testing.

The book provides a systematic introduction to the principles, state-of-the-art methods and applications of high frequency surface/sky wave radar and microwave marine radar, as well as an exploration of ongoing challenges in the field. It is a valuable resource for the radar and remote sensing communities.

This book covers state of the art interdisciplinary research on key disruptive and interrelated technologies such as Big Data, Edge computing, IoT and Cloud computing. The authors address the challenges from a distributed system perspective, with clear contributions in theory and applications.

This expanded and updated second edition is an essential guide to technologies for operating modern flexible power systems. Additional content for this edition includes four new chapters on recent modelling, control and stability analysis of power electronic converters and electric vehicles.

This expanded and updated second edition covers advanced data-driven signal processing techniques for the analysis of power system data and transient oscillations in power grids. New content includes new architectures for smart grids and microgrids, multitemporal data fusion, deep learning, multichannel phasor measurement.

In this book, the authors articulate the challenges associated with streaming data and analytics, describe data analytics algorithms and approaches, present edge and fog computing concepts and technologies and show how streaming analytics can be accomplished in edge device clouds. They also delineate several industry use cases.

Graph analytics are being empowered through novel analytics techniques to explore and pinpoint beneficial relationships between different entities such as organizations, people and transactions. This edited book presents the various aspects and importance of graph data science, with contributions by authors from academia and industry.

Inspired by MPEG-I and JPEG-PLENO standardization activities, this book is for readers who want to understand 3D representations and multi-camera video processing for novel immersive media applications. The authors address new challenges that arise beyond compression-only, such as depth acquisition and 3D rendering.

Radar signals are one of the most challenging signals to process, because of the extreme signal to noise ratio and the dynamic range of the signals. This book gives readers an analysis of the various tools available to help better understand radar data, including coverage of new machine learning and statistical methods.