Enhanced detectability of point target using adaptive morphological clutter elimination by importing the properties of the target region

Signal Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1973-1989

  Bai, Xiangzhi ^a   Zhou, Fugen ^a   Xie, Yongchun ^b   Jin, Ting ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF CONTROL ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Clutter elimination; Contour structuring element; Detectability enhancement; False alarm reduction; Mathematical morphology; Point target detection

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER ELIMINATION; CONTOUR STRUCTURING ELEMENT; DETECTABILITY ENHANCEMENT; FALSE ALARM REDUCTION; POINT TARGET DETECTION;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ALARM SYSTEMS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); ERRORS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; TARGET DRONES;

TARGETS;

EID: 67349245785     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.03.036     Document Type: Article

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