Experimental validation of ship identification with a laser range profiler

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6950, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Van Den Heuvel, Johan C ^a   Pace, Paul ^b   Bekman, Herman H P Th ^a   Van Putten, Frank J M ^a   Schleijpen, Ric M A ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Identification; Laser; Littoral; Range profile

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DETECTORS; LANDFORMS; LASERS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; SHIPS; SURFACES; TARGETS; TECHNOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; DATABASE CREATION; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FIELD TRIALS; HIGH BANDWIDTH; LASER RADAR (LADAR); LASER RANGING; NAVAL OPERATIONS; NEURAL NET; RANGE PROFILING; TARGET MODELS;

PULSED LASER DEPOSITION;

EID: 45149105735     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.777944     Document Type: Conference Paper

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