Improved Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) value through enhancements and accommodations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6237, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ross, Timothy D ^a   Goodwon, Lloyd C ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodations; Affordability; ATR; Detection; Enhancements; Identification; Radar; SAR

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATIONS; AFFORDABILITY; DETECTION; ENHANCEMENTS; IDENTIFICATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 33747348486     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.674026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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