Detection and classification of MSTAR objects via morphological shared-weight neural networks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3370, Issue , 1998, Pages 530-540

  Theera Umpon, Nipon ^a   Khabou, Mohamed A ^a   Gader, Paul D ^a   Keller, James M ^a   Shi, Hongchi ^a   Li, Hongzheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

ATR; Morphological Shared weight Neural Networks; MSTAR; SAR

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MILITARY VEHICLES; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADAR IMAGING; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

DATA SETS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0037984007     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321856     Document Type: Conference Paper

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