Characterizing the statistical properties of SAR clutter by using an empirical distribution

International Journal of Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gao, Gui ^a   Shi, Gongtao ^a   Zou, Huanxin ^a   Zhou, Shilin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; METHOD-OF-LOG-CUMULANTS; SAR IMAGES; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84873329367     PISSN: 16875869     EISSN: 16875877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/109145     Document Type: Article

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