Improved clutter mitigation performance using knowledge-aided space-time adaptive processing

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 997-1008

  Bergin, Jameson S ^a   Teixeira, Christopher M ^a,d   Techau, Paul M ^a   Guerci, Joseph R ^b,c  

^a Information Systems Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^b IEEE

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; SPACE-TIME BEAMFORMER;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; RADAR SYSTEMS; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 33947153728     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2006.248194     Document Type: Article

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