Angle/doppler estimation in heavy-tailed clutter backgrounds

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 419-436

  Tsakalides, Panagiotis ^a,b   Raspanti, Raffaele ^c,d   Nikias, Chrysostomos L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c Andersen Consulting   (Italy)

^d University of Southern California   (United States)

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EID: 0001347103     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.766926     Document Type: Article

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