Modeling sea clutter as a nonstationary and nonextensive random process

IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 412-416

  Hu, Jing ^a   Tung, Wen Wen ^b   Gao, Jian Bo ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-SCATTERED; DETECTING TARGET; LOW-OBSERVABLE; NON-STATIONARITIES; NONSTATIONARY; PARAMETERS ESTIMATED; RADAR PULSE; REAL SEA; SEA CLUTTERS; SEA SURFACES; STATISTICAL MODELS; TSALLIS DISTRIBUTIONS; TSALLIS ENTROPIES; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR; RANDOM PROCESSES; TIME SERIES;

RADAR CLUTTER;

EID: 67649168726     PISSN: 10975659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RADAR.2006.1631833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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