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Editor-in-Chief-Maria S. Greco
Associate Editor-in-Chief-Peter K. Willett
Administrative Editor-William P. Walsh
Ass't. Admin. Editor-Susanne J. Walsh
Editor Emeritus-David B. Dobson
VP Publications-W. Dale Blair
AESS President-Teresa L. Pace
Executive Assistant, AESS
-Judy Scharmann

Contributing Editors
Awards-Erwin C. Gangl
Book Reviews Editor-Darin Dunham
Conferences-Mark Davis
Distinguished Lecturers &
Tutorials-Kathleen Kramer
Education-Kathleen Kramer
History-Hugh D. Griffiths
Student Research-Wenbo Dou,
John Glass
Technical Panels-Walter Downing
Tutorials Editor-W. Dale Blair
Website Updates-Judy Scharmann

Associate Editors and Areas of
Specialty
Scott Bawden-Energy Conversion
Systems
Erik Blasch, Roberto Sabatini-Avionics
Systems
Domenico Ciuonzo-Communications,
Signal Processing, and Data Fusion
David Crouse-Target Tracking
Mauro De Sanctis-Signal Processing and
Communication in Aerospace Systems
Michael Braasch-Navigation, Positioning
Giancarmine Fasano-UAS
Daniel O'Hagan-Radar Systems
Open-Astronautic and Aeronautic
Systems
Haiying Liu-Control System Engineering
and Robotic Systems
Michael Cardinale-Electro-Optic and
Infrared Systems, Image Processing
Ruhai Wang-Systems Engineering
Peter Willett-Multi-Sensor Systems

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September 2017

ISSN 0885-8985

Volume 32 Number 9

COLUMNS
In This Issue - Technically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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From the Editor-in-Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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ARTICLES
Design for Graceful Degradation and Recovery from GNSS
Interruptions
Trevor Layh, Demoz Gebre-Egziabher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Study on a New Power by Wire Thrust Vector Control System With
High Reliability
Kangwu Zhu, Junyong Fu, Cheng Fang, Baoliang Ji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
RCS Measurements and ISAR Images of Small UAVs
Massimiliano Pieraccini, Lapo Miccinesi, Neda Rojhani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Evaluating Performance of MEMS Barometric Sensors in Differential
Altimetry Systems
Dimosthenis E. Bolanakis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Expert System CFAR: Algorithm Development, Experimental
Demonstration, and Transition to Airborne Radar Systems
Michael C. Wicks, William J. Baldygo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Focus-Before-Detection Radar Signal Processing: Part I-Challenges
and Methods
Jia Xu, Ying-Ning Peng, Xiang-Gen Xia, Teng Long, Er-Ke Mao,
Alfonso Farina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

NEWS AND INFORMATION
AESS Professional Networking and Mentoring Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
AESS Resource Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Call for Nominations: The 2017 Harry Rowe Mimno Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
AESS Video Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Call For Papers: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic
Systems (T-AES) Special Section on Spectrum Sharing Systems . . . . . 63
Call for Proposals: 2021 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf21) . . . . . . . . . . 64
Meetings and Conferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . inside back cover



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