Biparametric Linear Estimation for CFAR Against Weibull Clutter

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 138-151

  Guida, Maurizio ^a   Longo, Maurizio ^b   Lops, Marco ^b  

^a Dept of Statistics and Reliability ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BEST LINEAR UNBIASED ESTIMATION; BIPARAMETRIC LINEAR ESTIMATION; CFAR THRESHOLDING; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; GUMBEL PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WEIBULL CLUTTER;

RADAR INTERFERENCE;

EID: 0026708020     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.135440     Document Type: Article

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