Attributed scattering centers for SAR ATR

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-91

  Potter, Lee C ^a,b   Moses, Randolph L ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR CROSS SECTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ATTRIBUTED SCATTERING CENTERS; MODEL ORDER SELECTION ALGORITHM;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0030779418     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.552098     Document Type: Article

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