Mitigation techniques for non-Gaussian sea clutter

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 284-302

  Conte, Ernesto ^a   De Maio, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR RECEIVERS; RADAR WARNING SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ADAPTIVE DETECTOR; ADAPTIVE MATCHED FILTER; COHERENT RADAR DETECTION; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; MITIGATION TECHNIQUES; REAL SEA CLUTTER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 3943071772     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2004.826901     Document Type: Article

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