Application of maximum likelihood estimation to radar imaging

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 20-27

  Tu, Ming Wang ^a   Gupta, Inder J ^a   Wallon, Eric K ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse scattering; Radar imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (ML) ESTIMATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0030736105     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.554236     Document Type: Article

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