Classification of radar clutter using features extracted from the time-frequency domain

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3069, Issue , 1997, Pages 49-60

  Jouny, Ismail I ^a   Wu, C M ^a  

^a LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clutter classification; Cumulants; Radar; Time frequency; Wigner Ville

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR EQUIPMENT; WHITE NOISE;

BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME (CS); CLUTTER CLASSIFICATION; COLORED NOISES; CUMULANTS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCES; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN (FD); NOISE VARIANCE; RADAR SIGNALS; TIME DOMAIN (OCT); TIME-FREQUENCY; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION (WD); WIGNER-VILLE;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 33644921718     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.277143     Document Type: Conference Paper

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