The Singularity Expansion Method And Its Application To Target Identification

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 1991, Pages 1481-1492

  Baum, Carl E ^a   Rothwell, Edward J ^b   Chen, Kun Mu ^b   Nyquist, Dennis P ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR;

PULSED ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; PULSED RADAR; SINGULARITY EXPANSION METHOD; TARGET IDENTIFICATION; TRANSIENT SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0026240824     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.104223     Document Type: Article

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