Design and analysis of a knowledge-aided radar detector for Doppler processing

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1058-1077

  Conte, E ^b   De Maio, A ^a,b   Farina, A ^a,c   Foglia, G ^d,e  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c SELEX SISTEMI INTEGRATI   (Italy)

^d Elettronica SpA   (Italy)

^e Elettronica SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER PROCESSING; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD FUNCTION (GLF); TRAINING DATA;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PHOTOMAPPING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

DOPPLER RADAR;

EID: 33947124457     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2006.248200     Document Type: Article

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