Higher order nested wigner distributions: Properties and applications

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4662-4674

  Qazi, Saad A ^a,b   Stergioulas, Lampros K ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambiguity function (AF); Double dimensional distributions; Multidimensional distributions; Nested distributions (NDs); Quartic time frequency distributions; Radar signal processing; Time frequency filtering; Wigner distribution (WD)

Indexed keywords

NESTED AMBIGUITY FUNCTION (NAF); NESTED DISTRIBUTIONS (ND); QUARTIC TIME FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL ESTIMATION; SIGNAL SEPARATION; TIME FREQUENCY FILTERING; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION (WD);

CORRELATION METHODS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 33947188999     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.882070     Document Type: Article

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