3D Scattering Center Representation of Complex Targets Using the Shooting and Bouncing Ray Technique: A Review

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 30-36

  Bhalla, R ^a   Ling, H ^a   Moore, J ^b   Andersh, D J ^b   Lee, S W ^b   Hughes, J ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b DEMACO Inc   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data compression; Electromagnetic scattering; Feature extraction; Radar cross sections; Radar target recognition; Scattering center

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR CROSS SECTION;

SHOOTING AND BOUNCING RAY METHOD;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032179847     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/74.735963     Document Type: Review

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