Application of angular correlation function of clutter scattering and correlation imaging in target detection

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 5 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1485-1493

  Zhang, Guifu ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation imaging; Field imaging; Frequency angular correlation function; Resolution; Signal clutter ratio

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR IMAGING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FREQUENCY ANGULAR CORRELATION FUNCTION (FACF); SIGNAL-CLUTTER RATIO;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032166281     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.718852     Document Type: Article

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