Suboptimum approach to adaptive coherent radar detection in compound-gaussian clutter

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1095-1104

  Greco, Fulvio Gini Maria V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR CLUTTER; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL TESTS; WHITE NOISE;

ADAPTIVE COHERENT RADAR DETECTION; ADAPTIVE LINEAR QUADRATIC DETECTOR; COMPOUND GAUSSIAN CLUTTER; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033155653     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.784077     Document Type: Article

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