Statistical analysis of a high-resolution sea-clutter database

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 4 PART 2, 2010, Pages 2024-2037

  Carretero Moya, Javier ^a   Gismero Menoyo, Javier ^a   Blanco Del campo, Álvaro ^a   Asensio López, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

High resolution radar; non Gaussian clutter; Radar clutter; Radar sea surface clutter; Sea clutter; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR; K DISTRIBUTION; KA BAND; LOG-NORMAL; NON-GAUSSIAN CLUTTERS; POWER LAW MODEL; RANGE RESOLUTION; SEA CLUTTERS; SPECTRAL BEHAVIORS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR IMAGING; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

AMPLITUDE; DATA SET; DATABASE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTASSIUM; RADAR; RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

SPAIN;

EID: 79960147824     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2033193     Document Type: Article

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