Statistical analysis of real clutter at different range resolutions

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 903-918

  Conte, E ^a   De Maio, A ^a   Galdi, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

GAUSSIAN MODEL; RAYLEIGH MODEL; SPHERICALLY INVARIANT RANDOM PROCESSES;

RADAR CLUTTER;

EID: 4444340579     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2004.1337463     Document Type: Article

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