Signal Analysis by Means of Time-Frequency (Wigner-Type) Distributions - Applications to Sonar and Radar Echoes

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1231-1248

  Gaunaurd, Guillermo C ^a,b   Strifors, Hans C ^a  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ECHO SUPPRESSION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SONAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

IMPULSE RADARS; RESONANCE ACOUSTIC ECHOES; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; WIGNER DISTRIBUTIONS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0030243237     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.535243     Document Type: Article

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