Experimental feature-based SAR ATR performance evaluation under different operational conditions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6968, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Chen, Yin ^a   Blasch, Erik ^b   Chen, Huimin ^c   Qian, Tao ^a   Chen, Genshe ^d  

^a INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION INC   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^d DCM Research Resources LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic target recognition; Feature selection; Operating conditions; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; ATR ALGORITHMS; ATR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION (ATR); CLASSIFICATION ACCURACIES; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DIFFERENT OPERATING CONDITIONS; EVALUATION METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; FEATURE DIMENSIONS; FEATURE EXTRACTION METHODS; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; IN ORDER; INPUT DATA; INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY; KERNEL PCA; LARGE DATA; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS (CLDA); NEAREST NEIGHBOR (NN); OPERATING CONDITIONS; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS (PCA); SAR ATR; SAR IMAGERY; SENSOR FUSION (SF); STATIONARY TARGETS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGERY; SYSTEM PERFORMANCES; TARGET CLASSES; TARGET RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA FUSION; DETECTORS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MILITARY ENGINEERING; MULTITASKING; NUMBER THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SET THEORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; TARGETS; TECHNOLOGY; TESTING; TRACKING RADAR; VECTORS;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 44949165696     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.777459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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