Expanded swerling target models

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1059-1069

  Shnidman, David A ^a  

^a RADET Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTIONS; SWERLING TARGET MODELS;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 0344704084     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2003.1238757     Document Type: Letter

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