Maximum likelihood coordinate registration for over-the-horizon radar

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 945-959

  Krolik, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AVERAGE ABSOLUTE MISS DISTANCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (ML) TARGET LOCATION ESTIMATION; RAYMODES; RAYTRACING PROPAGATION MODEL;

SURVEILLANCE RADAR;

EID: 0031122342     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.564183     Document Type: Article

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