Track-before-detect procedures in a multi-target environment

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1135-1150

  Buzzi, Stefano ^a   Lops, Marco ^a   Venturino, Luca ^a   Ferri, Maurizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b Access Division   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TARGETS;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; EARLY DETECTIONS; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; HYPOTHESIS TESTS; IMPLEMENTATION COMPLEXITIES; MOVING TARGETS; NONLINEAR COMPLEXITIES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; PAPER ADDRESSES; PRIOR KNOWLEDGES; SUBOPTIMUM ALGORITHMS; TARGET ENVIRONMENTS; TBD PROCEDURES; TRACKING ACCURACIES; TRELLIS SEARCHES;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 55349143206     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2008.4655369     Document Type: Article

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