Performance of STAP tests in Gaussian and compound-Gaussian clutter

Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 309-324

  Michels, James H ^a   Himed, Braham ^a   Rangaswamy, Muralidhar ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARCON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; RADAR TRACKING; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); WHITE NOISE;

COMPOUND-GAUSSIAN CLUTTER; SPACE-TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING (STAP) DETECTION METHOD; SPHERICALLY INVARIANT RANDOM PROCESS (SIRP);

RADAR CLUTTER;

EID: 0034301568     PISSN: 10512004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dspr.2000.0377     Document Type: Article

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