Over-the-horizon radar target localization using a hidden Markov model estimated from ionosonde data

Radio Science

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1199-1213

  Anderson, Richard H ^a   Krolik, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IONOSPHERE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PLASMA WAVES; RADAR; RADAR CLUTTER; RADIOSONDES; RANDOM PROCESSES; RAY TRACING;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); IONOSONDE MEASUREMENT; OVER THE HORIZON (OTH) RADAR; RAY TRACING;

RADAR TRACKING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

COORDINATE REGISTRATION; IONOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; IONOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; IONOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; OVER-THE-HORIZON RADAR; STATISTICAL MODELING; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

EID: 0032121156     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98RS00476     Document Type: Article

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