An analysis of fully polarimetric W-band ISAR imagery on seven scale model main battle tanks for use in target recognition.

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4727, Issue , 2002, Pages 17-26

  Goyette, Thomas M ^a   Dickinson, Jason C ^a   Giles, Robert H ^a   Kersey, William T ^a   Waldman, Jerry ^a   Nixon, William E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b US Army National Ground Intelligence Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Imagery; Modeling; Radar; Sub millimeter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MICROWAVES; MODELS; OPTICAL PUMPING; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; TANKS (MILITARY); TRANSCEIVERS;

FAR INFRARED LASERS; MAIN BATTLE TANKS; SCALE MODEL; W BAND;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0036911880     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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