Exploiting persymmetry for CFAR detection in compound-Gaussian clutter

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 719-724

  Conte, Ernesto ^a   De Maio, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ADAPTIVE RECEIVER; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE DETECTION; MATCHED FILTER; PERSYMMETRY; RADAR DETECTION;

RADAR CLUTTER;

EID: 0042195962     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2003.1207278     Document Type: Letter

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