Maritime surveillance using multiple high-frequency surface-wave radars

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 5056-5071

  Maresca, Salvatore ^a   Braca, Paolo ^a   Horstmann, Jochen ^a,b   Grasso, Raffaele ^a  

^a NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data fusion (DF); high frequency (HF) surface wave (HFSW) radar; maritime surveillance; sea clutter; target detection; Target tracking

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; SURFACE WAVES; TARGET TRACKING;

AZIMUTH RESOLUTION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY SURFACE-WAVE RADAR; MARITIME SURVEILLANCE; MULTI-TARGET TRACKING; OCEAN REMOTE SENSING; SEA CLUTTERS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION;

TRACKING RADAR;

ALGORITHM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MARINE TECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SURFACE WAVE; TRACKING;

EID: 84896393564     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2286741     Document Type: Article

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