Contrasted statistical processing algorithm for obtaining improved target detection performances in infrared cluttered environment

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2609-2617

  Zalevsky, Zeev ^a   Mendlovic, David ^a   Rivlin, Ehud ^b   Rotman, Stanley ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PROBABILITY; RADAR CLUTTER; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; DETECTION THRESHOLD; INFRARED CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL PROCESSING ALGORITHM; TARGET DETECTION;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034294461     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1269062     Document Type: Article

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