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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0722.00053.] The application of harmonic analysis to radar and sonar imaging is based on the analog stimulus-response association by stimulus-evoked coherent wavelets [\textit{W. Schempp}, Mitt. Ges. Angew. Math. Mech. 15, 21-68 (1992)]. The paper under review is an introduction to the basic concepts and tools in Lie group representation theory, both commutative and noncommutative, that are fundamental for the mathematical description of the analog stimulus-response association model and its technological implementations. Several symmetry groups of physical interest are considered (torus, line, rotation, affine, Heisenberg, metaplectic) together with their associated transforms and representation theories (DFT, Fourier, holographic, wavelet, expansion in spherical harmonics). Unfortunately, the author completely avoids the powerful coadjoint orbit picture which provides via the covariance and traciality principles of phase-space quantum mechanics deep insights in special function theory [\textit{W. Schempp}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 92, 103-110 (1984; Zbl 0525.43007); \textit{J. C. Várilly}, \textit{J. M. Gracia-Bondía}, and \textit{W. Schempp}: Acta Appl. Math. 18, 225-250 (1990; Zbl 0703.33015)] and the technological implementations of the analog stimulus-response associated model. Specifically, he does not take up the study of computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), supraconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) imaging, photonic radar processing, molecular computers, and holographic neural technology (HNeT), even though these fields have group-theoretical roots. These roots actually are even more far reaching and lead to coherent wavelet neural networks and by the lattice model of the Heisenberg nilpotent Lie group to the collapsed tori which implement nonlinear dynamical systems and chaotic activity patterns [\textit{W. Schempp}: Harmonic analysis on the Heisenberg nilpotent Lie group, with applications to signal theory. (Pitman Res. Notes Math. 147, 1986; Zbl 0632.43001); \textit{K. H. Pribram, W. Schempp}: Analog VLSI network models, cortical linking neural network models, and quantum holographic neural technology. Proc. First Appalachian Conference on Behavioral Neurodynamics: Processing in Biological Neural Networks (to appear)].