A cumulant-based adaptive technique for coherent radar detection in a mixture of K-distributed clutter and Gaussian disturbance

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1507-1519

  Gini, Fulvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR RECEIVERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

K DISTRIBUTED CLUTTER;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0031168799     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.599993     Document Type: Article

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