Time-frequency analysis for radar classification of land-mine images

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Wong, David C ^a   Nguyen, Lam H ^a   Gaunaurd, Guillermo C ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOI-WILLIAMS DISTRIBUTIONS; METAL MINES; TIME-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS;

RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 36048964308     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2776354     Document Type: Article

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