Fractal poisson model for target detection within spiky sea clutter

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 411-415

  Jian, Guan ^a   Ning Bo, Liu ^a   Yong, Huang ^a   You, He ^a  

^a NAVAL AERONAUTICAL AND ASTRONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Algebraic fractal; Paretian Poisson; sea clutter; sea spike; target detection

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER BACKGROUND; PARETIAN POISSON; POISSON MODEL; POISSON PROCESS; POWER-LAW; RESIDUAL SUM OF SQUARES; SEA CLUTTERS; SEA SPIKES; SPIKE AMPLITUDES; THREE PARAMETERS; WELL MODEL; X-BAND RADARS;

ALGEBRA; FRACTALS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADAR CLUTTER; TARGET TRACKING;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 84869488698     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2203578     Document Type: Article

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