Vector subspace detection in compound-Gaussian clutter part II: Performance analysis

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1312-1323

  Geni, Fulvio ^a   Farina, Alfonso ^b   Montanari, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b ALENIA SPAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; VECTORS;

NEYMAN-PEARSON (NP) DETECTORS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0036821524     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2002.1145752     Document Type: Article

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