A new way to model nonstationary sea clutter

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-132

  Hu, Jing ^a   Tung, Wen Wen ^b   Gao, Jianbo ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

K distribution; Sea clutter; Target detection; Tsallis distribution

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; TARGET DRONES; TARGETS; TIME SERIES;

K DISTRIBUTION; LOW-OBSERVABLE; NON STATIONARIES; NON-STATIONARITY; OCEAN SURFACES; RADAR BACKSCATTERS; REAL SEAS; SEA CLUTTER; TARGET DETECTION; TSALLIS DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

RADAR CLUTTER;

EID: 59249106270     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2008.2009844     Document Type: Article

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