A Method For Estimating Parameters Of K-Distributed Clutter

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 238-246

  Raghavan, R S ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS; NOISE, SPURIOUS SIGNAL - SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGING;

GAMMA DENSITY; K-DISTRIBUTED CLUTTER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATES; SPIKY CLUTTER; WEIBULL DENSITY;

RADAR INTERFERENCE;

EID: 0026107871     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.78298     Document Type: Article

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