Feature Enhancement and ATR Performance Using Nonquadratic Optimization-Based SAR Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1375-1395

  Çetin, Müjdat ^a   Karl, William Clem ^b   Castañon, David A ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION (ATR); GAUSSIAN MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 1642344555     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2003.1261134     Document Type: Article

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