Development of a polarimetric CFAR detector using markov chains

2008 IEEE Radar Conference, RADAR 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fei, Chuhong ^a   Anastassopoulos, Vassilis ^b   Liu, Ting ^a   Lampropoulos, George A ^a   Murnaghan, Kevin ^c   Sabry, Ramin ^d  

^a A U G SIGNALS LTD   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^d DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CFAR detection; Markov chains; Polarimetrie SAR

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; DETECTORS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADAR; SECURITY OF DATA; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

CFAR DETECTION; CFAR DETECTORS; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE DETECTORS; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; DETECTION PROBABILITIES; FIRST ORDERS; MARKOV CHAIN MODELS; MARKOV CHAINS; POLARIMETRIE SAR; RADARSAT-2; SIGNAL-TO-CLUTTER RATIOS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 61849121879     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RADAR.2008.4721036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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