Matched subspace CFAR detection of hovering helicopters

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1293-1305

  Gini, Fulvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICOPTERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR CLUTTER; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CLUTTER DISTRIBUTION; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR); MATCHED SUBSPACE DETECTORS (MSD);

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0033309078     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.805446     Document Type: Article

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