A nonlinear-phase model-based human detector for radar

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2502-2513

  Gürbüz, Sevgi Z ^a   Melvin, William L ^b   Williams, Douglas B ^c  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION PERFORMANCE; DOPPLER PROCESSING; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; HUMAN DETECTION; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; LINEAR VARIATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; NONLINEAR APPROXIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; PHASE HISTORY; PHASE MISMATCH; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; REMOTE OPERATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SIMULATION RESULT;

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; DETECTORS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

TRACKING RADAR;

EID: 80054000519     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2011.6034647     Document Type: Article

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