Target detection in synthetic aperture radar imagery: A state-of-the-art survey

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  El Darymli, Khalid ^a,b   McGuire, Peter ^a   Power, Desmond ^a   Moloney, Cecilia ^b  

^a C CORE   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automatic target recognition; Constant false alarm rate; Expertsystem oriented methods; Multifeature based methods; Single feature based methods; Synthetic aperture radar; Target detection; prescreener

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; BANDPASS FILTERS; ERRORS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRACKING RADAR;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE DETECTIONS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; FEATURE-BASED METHOD; IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES; MULTI FEATURES; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 84889022414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.7.071598     Document Type: Review

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