A radar application of a modified cramér-rao bound: parameter estimation in non-gaussian clutter

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1945-1953

  Gini, Fulvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; THERMAL NOISE; VECTORS;

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; NON-GAUSSIAN CLUTTER; SPHERICALLY INVARIANT RANDOM PROCESSES (SIRP);

RADAR CLUTTER;

EID: 0032124010     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.700966     Document Type: Article

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