Radar target recognition based on modified characteristic polarization states

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1921-1933

  Aldhubaib, Faisal ^a   Shuley, Nicholas V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL LENGTH; EUCLIDEAN METRICS; FEATURE SETS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; POLARIZATION STATE; POWER LEVELS; POWER MATRIX; POWER OPTIMIZATION; RADAR TARGET; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; STOKES VECTOR; TARGET CHARACTERISTIC;

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POLARIZATION; RADAR;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 78651099235     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2010.5595604     Document Type: Article

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