HRR detector for slow-moving targets in sea clutter

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 965-974

  Blunt, Shannon D ^a   Gerlach, Karl ^b   Heyer, Jeffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RANDOM PROCESSES; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR (HRR); LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST (LRT); RADAR DETECTION; RADIAL VELOCITY; SEA CLUTTER; SLOW-MOVING TARGETS;

RADAR;

EID: 36849050762     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2007.4383586     Document Type: Article

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