Track-before-detect procedures for early detection of moving target from airborne radars

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 937-954

  Buzzi, Stefano ^a   Lops, Marco ^a   Venturino, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; DOPPLER EFFECT; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RADAR TRACKING; TRACKING RADAR;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR); TRACK-BEFORE-DETECT (TBD) PROCEDURES; VITERBI-LIKE ALGORITHM;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 27844475666     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2005.1541440     Document Type: Article

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