Characterisation of radar clutter as a spherically invariant random process

IEE Proceedings F: Communications Radar and Signal Processing

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 191-197

  Conte, E ^a   Longo, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Istituto Universitario Navale ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Mathematical techniques; Radar and radionavigation; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY - RANDOM PROCESSES;

COMPLEX CLUTTER; ENVELOPE DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN PROCESS; OPTIMUM DETECTION; PHASE DISTRIBUTION;

RADAR INTERFERENCE;

EID: 0023331845     PISSN: 01437070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-f-1.1987.0035     Document Type: Article

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