IET RADAR, SONAR AND NAVIGATION SERIES 25
Sea Clutter
Other volumes in this series:
Volume 1 Optimised radar processors A. Farina (Editor)
Volume 3 Weibull radar clutter M. Sekine and Y. Mao
Volume 7 Ultra-wideband radar measurements: analysis and processing
L. Yu. Astanin and A.A. Kostylev
Volume 8 Aviation weather surveillance systems: advanced radar and surface
sensors for flight safety and air traffic management P.R. Mahapatra
Volume 10 Radar techniques using array antennas W. Wirth
Volume 11 Air and spaceborne radar systems: an introduction P. Lacomme (Editor)
Volume 13 Introduction to RF stealth D. Lynch
Volume 14 Applications of space-time adaptive processing R. Klemm (Editor)
Volume 15 Ground penetrating radar, 2nd edition D. Daniels
Volume 16 Target detection by marine radar J. Briggs
Volume 17 Strapdown inertial navigation technology, 2nd edition D. Titterton and
J. Weston
Volume 18 Introduction to radar target recognition P. Tait
Volume 19 Radar imaging and holography A. Pasmurov and S. Zinovjev
Volume 20 Sea clutter: scattering, the K distribution and radar performance K. Ward,
R. Tough and S. Watts
Volume 21 Principles of space-time adaptive processing, 3rd edition R. Klemm
Volume 22 Waveform design and diversity for advanced radar systems F. Gini,
A. De Maio and L.K. Patton
Volume 23 Tracking filter engineering: the Gauss-Newton and polynomial filters
N. Morrison
Volume 101 Introduction to airborne radar, 2nd edition G.W. Stimson
Sea Clutter
Scattering, the K Distribution
and Radar Performance
2nd Edition
Keith Ward, Robert Tough
and Simon Watts
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