Robust CFAR Detector Based on Truncated Statistics in Multiple-Target Situations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 117-134

  Tao, Ding ^a   Anfinsen, Stian Normann ^a   Brekke, Camilla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Constant false alarm rate (CFAR); sea clutter; statistical modeling; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); target detection; truncated statistics (TSs)

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); ERRORS; SHIPS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKGROUND CLUTTER; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE DETECTORS; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; INTERFERING TARGETS; MULTIPLE TARGETS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SHIP DETECTION; SHIPPING LINES;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR CORRECTION; HARBOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHIPPING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84947028977     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2451311     Document Type: Article

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