Optimum detection of small targets in a cluttered background

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 83-92

  Silva, Dennis M ^a   Abdou, Ikram E ^a   Warren, Russell E ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Detection; Multichannel data; Noise models; Recognition techniques; Small targets; Whitening; Yule Walker equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002209120     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601835     Document Type: Article

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