Waveform libraries: Measures of effectiveness for radar scheduling

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-21

  Cochran, Douglas ^a   Suvorova, Sofia ^b   Howard, Stephen D ^c   Moran, Bill ^b  

^a AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO)   (Australia)

Author keywords

Libraries; Optimal scheduling; Radar; Radar tracking; Sea measurements; Target tracking; Time measurement

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); LIBRARIES; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; SCHEDULING; TARGET TRACKING; TIME MEASUREMENT; TRACKING RADAR; TRANSMITTERS;

MEASURES OF EFFECTIVENESS; OPERATIONAL SCENARIO; OPTIMAL SCHEDULING; RADAR APPLICATIONS; SEA MEASUREMENTS; TEST BED SYSTEMS; WAVEFORM GENERATORS; WAVEFORM SCHEDULING;

RADAR TRACKING;

EID: 85032752321     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2008.930415     Document Type: Article

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