Detection of radar targets by means of fractal error

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E80-B, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1741-1748

  Lin, Chih Ping ^a   Sano, Motoaki ^a   Serine, Matsuo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clutter; Fractals; MMW radar; Target; X band radar

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); ERROR ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RADAR TRACKING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

COOPER'S METHOD; FRACTAL ERRORS;

TRACKING RADAR;

EID: 0031275851     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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