Radar measurement noise variance estimation with several targets of opportunity

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 985-995

  Osborne, III ^a   Bar Shalom, Y ^a   Kirubarajan, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; MEASUREMENTS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SENSORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TARGETS;

ADAPTIVE ESTIMATIONS; COMBINING TECHNIQUES; IMM ESTIMATORS; INTERACTING MULTIPLE MODELS; LEGACY SENSORS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEASUREMENT NOISES; NOISY MEASUREMENTS; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS; SPACE USING; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TRACKING TARGETS;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 55349100223     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2008.4655358     Document Type: Article

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