High grazing angle X-band sea clutter distributions

IET Conference Publications

Volumn , Issue 530 CP, 2007, Pages

  Dong, Y ^a   Haywood, B ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Maritime radar surveillance; Sea clutter

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; RADAR CLUTTER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

DISTRIBUTION MODELS; GRAZING ANGLES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; K DISTRIBUTIONS; MARITIME RADAR SURVEILLANCE; SEA CLUTTER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 57649223568     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/cp:20070618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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