Joint spatial-polarimetric whitening filter to improve SAR target detection performance for spatially distributed targets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2230, Issue , 1994, Pages 285-301

  Larson, Vic ^a   Novak, Les ^b   Stewart, Clay ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILLIMETER WAVES; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; TRACKING RADAR;

DETECTION PERFORMANCE; POLARIMETRIC WHITENING; SAR DATA; SINGLE CHANNELS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED TARGETS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85069081656     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.177180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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