Detection of radar targets embedded in sea ice and sea clutter using fractals, wavelets, and neural networks

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E83-B, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1916-1928

  Lin Chih ping, ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fractal, wavelet; Neural network; Sea clutter; Sea ice clutter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ERROR CORRECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FRACTALS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADAR CLUTTER; SEA ICE; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SIGNAL-TO-CLUTTER RATIOS; WAVELET FEATURE EXTRACTORS;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034270357     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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