Radar measurement extraction in the presence of sea-surface multipath

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 550-567

  Sinha, A ^a   Bar Shalom, Y ^a   Blair, W D ^b   Kirubarajan, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FADING (RADIO); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR TRACKING;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANGLE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUE; RADAR MEASUREMENT EXTRACTION; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERROR; SEA SKIMMER; SEA SURFACE MULTIPATH;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0038430383     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2003.1207266     Document Type: Article

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