Application of the Radon transform to detect small-targets in sea clutter

IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-166

  Carretero Moya, J ^a   Gismero Menoyo, J ^a   Asensio Lopez A ^a   Blanco Del Campo, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRP MODULATION; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DIGITAL STORAGE; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADON; TRACKING RADAR;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; DETECTION SCHEME; DETECTION TECHNIQUES; DOPPLER INFORMATION; HEURISTIC APPROACH; LINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATED; MILLIMETRE-WAVE RADAR; NON COHERENT INTEGRATION;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

EID: 60249100030     PISSN: 17518784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn:20080123     Document Type: Article

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