Spatial Adaptive Subspace Detection in OTH Radar

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1407-1428

  Fabrizio, Giuseppe Aureliano ^a   Farina, Alfonso ^a,b   Turley, Mike D ^a,c  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b Alenia Marconi Systems   (Italy)

^c ALENIA SPAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADAPTIVE SUBSPACE DETECTORS (ASD); OVER-THE-HORIZON (OTH) RADAR SYSTEMS;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 1642285990     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2003.1261136     Document Type: Article

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