The fractal properties of sea clutter and their applications in maritime target detection

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1295-1299

  Luo, Feng ^a   Zhang, Danting ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Box counting dimension; fractal; integral test; multifractal; sea clutter

Indexed keywords

BOX-COUNTING DIMENSION; DETECTING METHODS; FRACTAL PROPERTIES; INTEGRAL TEST; MULTI FRACTALS; MULTIFRACTAL SPECTRUM; SEA CLUTTERS; SIGNAL-TO-CLUTTER RATIOS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTALS;

RADAR CLUTTER;

EID: 84886589842     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2237750     Document Type: Article

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