Posterior distributions of a statistic of propagation loss inferred from radar sea clutter

Radio Science

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Ted Rogers, L ^a   Jablecki, Michael ^a   Gerstoft, Peter ^b  

^a Naval Command   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MAPPING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

POSTERIORI DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESS MODEL;

RADAR;

EID: 32844469482     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004RS003112     Document Type: Article

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