An approach to knowledge-aided covariance estimation

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1021-1041

  Melvin, William L ^a,b   Showman, Gregory A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL UNDER TEST (CUT); DATA OBSERVATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS CLUTTER ENVIRONMENTS;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DIGITAL FILTERS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

EID: 33947177014     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2006.248216     Document Type: Article

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