Leslie M. Novak, Gregory J. Owirka, William S. Brower, Alison L. Weaver
system that provides significantly improved target-recognition performance compared with ATR systems that use conventional synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) image-processing techniques. We achieve...
Tactical Radars for Ground Surveillance Tactical Radars for (2008)
Ground Surveillance, Thomas G. Bryant, Gerald B. Morse, Leslie M. Novak, John C. Henry
Lincoln laboratory’s involvement in the arena of tactical battlefield surveillance began in 1967 with a program to develop a radar system that would penetrate jungle foliage and detect moving...
Algorithms for Optimal Processing of Polarimetric Radar Data (2005)
Novak, Leslie M., Sechtin, Michael B., Burl, Michael C.
This report describes algorithms that make optimal use of polarimetric radar information to detect and classify targets in a ground clutter background. The optimal polarimetric detector (OPD) is...
On the Estimation of Spectral Parameters Using Burst Waveforms (2000)
This report addresses the problem of estimating the spectral parameters of an observed doppler velocity spectrum using a burst radar waveform of arbitrary length. Maximum likelihood theory is applied...
Studies of Target Detection Algorithms Which Use Polarimetric Radar Data. (1998)
Novak, Leslie M., Sechtin, Michael B., Cardullo, Michele J.
This reprint considers the use of polarimetric radar information in the detection and discrimination of targets embedded in a ground clutter background. A frequency diverse radar such as the HOWLS...
Target Prescreening Based on a Quadratic Gamma (1997)
Discrim Inator, Jose C. Principe, Senior Member, Alex Radisavljevic, John Fisher Iil, Margarita Hiett, ...
This work presents the development, analysis and validation of a new target discrimination module for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery based on an extension of gamma functions to 2-D. Using the...
Target Prescreening Based on 2D Gamma Kernels (1995)
Jose Principe, Alex Radisavljevic, Munchurl Kim, John Fisher Iii, Leslie M. Novak
This work develops and tests a new target prescreening algorithm based on 2D gamma kernels. The key feature of the new kernel set is the existence of a free parameter that determines the size of its...
Leslie M. Novak, Shawn D. Halversen, Gregory J. Owirka, Margarita Hiett
polarimetric synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imagery to detect and classify stationary ground targets. This article summarizes a study in which data collected by the Lincoln Laboratory 33-GHz SAR were...
Target Prescreening based on a Quadratic Gamma Discriminator
Jose C. Principe, John Fisher, Jose C. Principe, Jose C. Principe, ...
This paper presents the development, analysis and validation of a new target discrimination module for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery based on an extension of gamma functions to 2-D. Using...