A SAR Target Classifier Using Radon Transforms and Hidden Markov Models

Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 274-283

  Nilubol, Chanin ^a   Mersereau, Russell M ^b   Smith, Mark J T ^b  

^a AWARE INC   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic target recognition; Hidden Markov models; Radon transforms; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VECTORS;

MODEL-BASED CLASSIFIERS; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 0348010177     PISSN: 10512004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dspr.2002.0430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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