Outline Structural Representation for Radar Target Classification Based on Non-Radar Templates

Automatic target recognition (ATR) is often based on statistical methodologies rather than using symbolic information relationships and properties. In this paper, a possible approach for the syntactic outline representation for radar target classification based on non-radar templates is presented, describing the outline extraction and tine detection algorithms to define a code-book of structures representing the target radar shape. The outline target recognition is attempted from a multi-perspective point of view: only the illuminated side of the target is preserved and then combined with other partial shapes collected from different nodes of a hypothetical radar network