Target prescreening based on a quadratic gamma discriminator

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 706-715

  Principe, Jose C ^a,b,d   Radisavljevic, Alex ^b,d   Fisher III, John ^b,d   Hiett, Margarita ^c   Novak, Leslie M ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^d University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FUNCTIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR WARNING SYSTEMS;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR); QUADRATIC GAMMA DISCRIMINATOR (QGD); TARGET PRESCREENING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0032118645     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.705880     Document Type: Article

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