Target discrimination in synthetic aperture radar using artificial neural networks

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1136-1149

  Principe, José C ^a,b   Kim, Munchurl ^c   Fisher III, John W ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma kernels; Mixed norm training; Neural networks; Synthetic aperture radar; Target discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GAMMA KERNELS; MIXED NORM TRAINING; NEYMAN-PEARSON CRITERION; QUADRATIC GAMMA DISCRIMINATOR; TARGET DISCRIMINATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0032139311     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.704307     Document Type: Article

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