Time-frequency method for detecting an accelerating target in sea clutter

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1289-1310

  Yasotharan, A ^a,b   Thayaparan, T ^b  

^a Radarcom Signals ^*  (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-FREQUENCY SURFACE-WAVE RADAR (HFSWR); PSEUDO TARGETS MOVING; RANGE OF UNAMBIGUOUSLY MEASURABLE FREQUENCIES (RUMF); TIME-FREQUENCY (TF) METHOD; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; TARGETS;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 33947696665     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2006.314573     Document Type: Article

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