Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory, Part I

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Highly readable paperback reprint of one of the great time-tested classics in the field of signal processing
Together with the reprint of Part III and the new Part IV, this will be the most complete treatment of the subject available
As imperative today as it was when it originally published
Has important applications in radar, sonar, communications, seismology, biomedical engineering, and astronomy
Includes section summaries, examples, and a large number of problems

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* Well-known authority, Dr. Van Trees updates array signal processing for today's technology
* This is the most up-to-date and thorough treatment of the subject available
* Written in the same accessible style as Van Tree's earlier classics, this completely new work covers all modern applications of array signal processing, from biomedicine to wireless communications

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A must-have.......2007-05-19

If you are looking for a well-organized, comprehensive, detailed book in the subject of detection and estimation, this is the book you must have. The author explains every subject very clearly, elaborates on important points, and, most importantly, supports the theoretical basis with many useful examples. It seems that Prof. Van Trees used his experience as a professor teaching this subject very effectively. In the book, there is nothing unclear, nothing too complicated to understand.

Old is GOLD! Remarkable collection of topics and problems..........2006-04-05

Van Trees, Part I (together with Wozencraft/Jacobs' Principles of Communication Engineering, and Gallager's Information Theory) is a must read to establish a solid background in detection/estimation theory and form connections to applications such as communications engineering and information theory.

Although most recent graduate education uses Kay's book (which is also a remarkable book), there are still a lot of details in which Van Trees, Part I excels. Especially, the exercise problems are actually lectures by themselves, and first time reader is encouraged at least to look at selected problems listed at the end of the book. Note that there is a solution manual floating around for these selected problems.

A good comparison between Kay and Van Trees, and their complementary nature, can be established how they treat the description of the Cramer-Rao bound, Kay emphasizes the recent developments and derivations (mostly of arithmetic and bookkeeping nature, results from post 1968 papers), whereas Van Trees goes leaps and bounds and discusses other bounds which apply when Cramer-Rao does not. I appreciate having both books as a result.

It is interesting to note that after almost 20 years using Van Trees in a couple of courses, I can still navigate my way through the book with ease since it well organized and methodical.

RECOMMENDATION: BEST BUY.
But dont stop here, and buy Wozencraft/Jacobs and Gallager as well.

A Classic Text.......2002-05-23

I have just taken this course from Dr. Van Trees at GMU. Est&Det organized many concepts taught in other graduate engineering courses into a coherent philosophy. The result is not only a rich understanding of estimation and detection, but also random processes, Wiener filtering, Kalman filtering, radar and communications theory etc.

The course was taught directly from the text with little outside material. Very little has become obsolete in the 30+ years since it was written.

The strong positives of this book are the philosophical organization, clear concise writing, and incredibly well conceived homework problems.

The only negative of the book is that there are many proofs done in great detail. This provides the necessary foundation for the material, but also makes it easy for the student to lose track of the bigger picture.

Dr. Van Trees tends to try to drive home the higher level concepts while glossing over many of the details when he is lecturing. The exercise problems then force the student to give the necessary attention to pertinent details. In my opinion, this is an excellent approach to teaching the material.

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Great modern standard text on array processing.......2007-05-10

The best up to date book for array processing. It is a huge book and has a massive amount of material. Easy to follow for the most part, but only if you are comfortable with DSP basics, random processes, matrices, and work the problems. Good stuff. There are some other popular books like Mozingo and Miller and Compton but they are rather old.

For the serious reader look no further.......2007-02-21

It was a great pleasure for me to discover this book after having tried to read several other books on the subject. The explanations and mathematics are crystal clear and anyone but the most indolent should have a great pleasure in the detail and effort put behind this book. As one example, I have looked for an explanation of the theory behind Dolph-Chebychev windows. This was clearly and simple described, so the reader has a chance to understand (and remember!) the material, instead of just jotting down many equations of various unknown origin. A great many array geometries, methods and techniques are considered and explained in detail. All in all, a lot of information I only wish, I had available several years ago.

For the serious reader I have found no comparable book on the subject.
For the beginnner, "adaptive signal processing" by Widrow may be more appropriate.

A Cook-Book of Mathematical Formulae.......2006-07-28

I cannot imagine that this book has been written by Van Trees. I was a fan of him after studying his 1st and third volumes during my MSc, but taking a course on Array Signal Proc. and Adaptive Array Sig. Proc. in the next one, i was ehgulfed in mathematics and only mathematics, with no intuitional background at all. The author only has given mathematics, not have grip on the theoretical concepts or may be he has failed to convey them. I will never tell anybody about this book for this course, its for sure.
Engr. Hasan Noor Khan.
M.Sc. Electronics & Communication Engg.
B.Sc. Electrical Engg.

Great academic reference - Practitioners: Use with caution!.......2003-04-06

This book is the fourth book in Dr van Trees' series "Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory". It relies extensively on volumes I and III (but not volume II), and the reader of volume IV will want to have volumes I and III available.

As for the book itself, it is BIG. For some reason, it gives the impression of being somewhat inflated. I can't pinpoint the exact reason for this, but I suspect it must have something to do with the relation between font size and paper size. The publishers claim there are 2000 references in the book. This may very well be true, as the bibliographies after each chapter generally are 10 to 15 pages long. Unfortunately, there is no overall bibliography in the book. While such a bibliography would inflate the book by somewhere between 100 and 150 pages (it is ~1500 pages in the current version), I think it would be worth adding it.

What the contents is concerned, it is a definite academic angle on the material and the presentation. The practitioner may want to pay attention to the fact that the book title is "_Optimum_ Array processing", not "_Practical_ Array Processing". The "Multiple Signal Classification" (MUSIC) method and "Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariant Techniques" (ESPRIT) algorithm are discussed extensively in the later chapters, but some details that turn out to be cruical when putting these methods to practical use appear to be missing in this book. The very motivation for developing the ESPRIT algorithm is that the MUSIC algorithm is extremely sensitive to array calibration data, i.e. that the array calibration matrix must be known with very high presicion. The inventors of ESPRIT, Roy and Kailath, pay meticulous attention to this problem in their journal articles (which are cited by van Trees). The problem of lacking array calibration data has indeed spawned an entire research field known as "blind source estimation". This is not mentioned at all in this book.

The second issue I would like to point out is that alternative, SUBoptimum array processing techniques are very breafly commented in section 9.4 (which all in all is half a page long). I find one sentence in that section somewhat annoying:

"We found that, for estimating the [Direction of Arrivals] of plane-wave signals the [suboptimum] algorithms did not perform as well as MUSIC and ESPRIT"

and then the author defer from discussing these algorithms further. I am sure this decision can be defended from the point of view that the scope of the book is optimum array processing. However, I would like to see how the author tests the suboptimum methods, how they perform, and what he bases his conclusions on. There is a vast difference between tests with synthetic data, generated by the computer, and working with data measured in the real world. My experience from working with real-world data from short arrays at low signal-to-noise ratios, is the exact opposite: The optimum algorithms work bad, if at all, while suboptimum algorithms do the job.

All in all, this book gives an as complete overview of the state-of-the-art in array processing as practically possible by one man to give in one volume. There are a couple of shortcommings, though. If this book was written by any other author and was published in any other series, it would be a clear five-star. However, Dr van Trees has, with his "Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory" series, established himself as perhaps _the_ authority in the field, and therefore I believe this book should be measured by somewhat stricter standards. Thus the four stars.

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I used this book for a EE course at UMR.......2001-06-30

This is an excellent book for those who have excellent people to talk to about non-trivial concepts...interestingly we had a teacher who would often make improvements to Van Trees work! (dont worry...i wont name you Dr.Stuller)

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* Phase estimation: the synchronization problem
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* Optimum angle-modulation systems
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