Ernesto conteclutter-map CFAR detection for range-spread targets in non-gaussian clutter. Part I: System design

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 2 PART 1, 1997, Pages 432-443

  Lops, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; RADAR CLUTTER; SIGNAL DETECTION; TRACKING RADAR; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR); LOCATION SCALE DISTRIBUTION; LOGNORMAL CLUTTER; WEIBULL CLUTTER;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031117744     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.575877     Document Type: Article

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