Knowledge-aided covariance matrix estimation and adaptive detection in compound-gaussian noise

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5391-5396

  Bandiera, Francesco ^a   Besson, Olivier ^b   Ricci, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive detection; Compound Gaussian clutter; Covariance matrix estimation; Heterogeneous environments; Map estimation; Mmse estimation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE DETECTION; COVARIANCE MATRIX ESTIMATION; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; MAP ESTIMATION; MMSE ESTIMATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DETECTORS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); STATISTICAL TESTS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 79959893120     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2010.2052922     Document Type: Article

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