Unsupervised constrained radar imaging of low resolution targets

Waves Random Media

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Semichaevsky, Andrey ^a   Testorf, Markus E ^b   McGahan, Robert V ^c   Fiddy, Michael A ^d  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; VEGETATION;

LINEAR SPECTRAL ESTIMATION; LOW RESOLUTION TARGET; UNSUPERVISED CONSTRAINED RADAR IMAGING;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 1942501046     PISSN: 09597174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0959-7174/14/2/016     Document Type: Article

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