New results on coherent radar target detection in heavy-tailed compound-Gaussian clutter

IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 779-784

  Sangston, Kevin J ^a   Gini, Fulvio ^a   Greco, Maria S ^a  

^a University of Pisa ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER MODELS; COHERENT RADAR; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN MODEL; GAUSSIANS; HEAVY-TAILED; K-DISTRIBUTION; MATCHED FILTER DETECTORS; NEW RESULTS; OPTIMUM DETECTORS;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DETECTORS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HOLOGRAPHY; MATCHED FILTERS; PATTERN MATCHING; RADAR CLUTTER; TRACKING RADAR;

RADAR;

EID: 77954942169     PISSN: 10975659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RADAR.2010.5494515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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