Adaptive thresholding of non-homogeneity detection for STAP applications

IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 355-360

  Teixeira, Christopher M ^a   Bergin, Jameson S ^a   Techau, Paul M ^a  

^a Information Systems Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR SYSTEMS; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

GENERALIZED INNER PRODUCT (GIP); GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATORS (GMTI); NON-HOMOGENEITY DETECTION (NHD);

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 4544264140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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