Coherent radar detection against K-distributed clutter with partially correlated texture

Signal Processing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-15

  Lombardo, P ^a   Farina, A ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Radar Command and Control Division   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clutter; Radar detection

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION DETECTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR CLUTTER; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GAUSSIAN LIKELIHOOD RATIO; K DISTRIBUTED CLUTTER; OPTIMUM COHERENT DETECTION; PARTIALLY CORRELATED TEXTURE;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0029755897     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1684(95)00119-0     Document Type: Article

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