Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of the Angular Position and Extent of a Target

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1981, Pages 187-199

  Milstein, Laurence B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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RADAR;

EID: 0019539630     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.1981.1056330     Document Type: Article

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