William L. Melvin

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

William L. Melvin is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Signal Processing and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, William L. Melvin has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 34 papers in Signal Processing and 14 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in William L. Melvin's work include Radar Systems and Signal Processing (73 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (56 papers) and Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques (34 papers). William L. Melvin is often cited by papers focused on Radar Systems and Signal Processing (73 papers), Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (56 papers) and Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques (34 papers). William L. Melvin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Türkiye and Australia. William L. Melvin's co-authors include Michael C. Wicks, J.R. Guerci, Gregory A. Showman, Mark E. Davis, Braham Himed, D.B. Williams, Pinyuen Chen, Sevgi Zübeyde Gürbüz, Russell D. Brown and Michael J. Callahan and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Signal Processing and Electronics.

In The Last Decade

William L. Melvin

76 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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R. Klemm Germany

Jun Tang China

Chengpeng Hao China

Peter Stoica Sweden

Goffredo Foglia Italy

Chaohuan Hou China

Xiaochuan Ma China

Junpeng Shi China

Christ D. Richmond United States

Chun‐Yang Chen United States

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Phillips, Joshua L., et al.. (2022). Software-Defined Cognitive Radar Implementation for Spectrum Management using MATLAB. 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). 1412–1416. 1 indexed citations

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Melvin, William L., et al.. (2019). Application of POMDPs to Cognitive Radar. 1662–1666. 3 indexed citations

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Melvin, William L., et al.. (2013). Improved distributed automatic target recognition performance via spatial diversity and data fusion. 1–6. 3 indexed citations

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Melvin, William L., et al.. (2012). CMA-HT: a crowd motion analysis framework based on heat-transfer analog model. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8402. 84020J–84020J. 4 indexed citations

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Melvin, William L., et al.. (2010). STAP performance in K-distributed clutter. 1089–1093. 2 indexed citations

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Melvin, William L., et al.. (2009). Adaptive ground clutter suppression for conformal array radar systems. IET Radar Sonar & Navigation. 3(4). 357–372. 13 indexed citations

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Melvin, William L., et al.. (2008). Adaptive filtering for conformal array radar. 84. 1–6. 2 indexed citations

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Maio, Antonio De, Giuseppe Fabrizio, Alfonso Farina, William L. Melvin, & L. Timmoneri. (2007). Challenging Issues in Multichannel Radar Array Processing. 856–862. 4 indexed citations

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Melvin, William L. & Mark E. Davis. (2007). Adaptive cancellation method for geometry-induced nonstationary bistatic clutter environments. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 43(2). 651–672. 93 indexed citations

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Farina, Alfonso, Giuseppe Fabrizio, William L. Melvin, & L. Timmoneri. (2005). Multichannel array processing in radar: state of the art, hot topics and way ahead. 143. 11–19. 5 indexed citations

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Showman, Gregory A., William L. Melvin, & Mikhail S. Belen’kii. (2004). Performance evaluation of two polarimetric STAP architectures. 41. 59–65. 6 indexed citations

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Melvin, William L., Gregory A. Showman, & J.R. Guerci. (2004). A knowledge-aided GMTI detection architecture [radar signal processing]. 145. 301–306. 10 indexed citations

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Melvin, William L.. (2003). Space-Time Detection Theory. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations

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Himed, Braham & William L. Melvin. (2002). Analyzing space-time adaptive processors using measured data. 1. 930–935. 47 indexed citations

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Melvin, William L., Michael J. Callahan, & Michael C. Wicks. (2002). Adaptive clutter cancellation in bistatic radar. 2. 1125–1130. 27 indexed citations

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Goldstein, J.S., I.S. Reed, Peter Zulch, & William L. Melvin. (2002). A multistage STAP CFAR detection technique. 111–116. 16 indexed citations

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Melvin, William L., et al.. (2001). Adaptive signal processing for a spaceborne distributed aperture. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Pinyuen, William L. Melvin, & Michael C. Wicks. (1999). Screening among Multivariate Normal Data. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 69(1). 10–29. 88 indexed citations

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Melvin, William L., et al.. (1998). Knowledge-Based Space-Time Adaptive Processing Airborne Early Warning Radar for. 1 indexed citations

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Melvin, William L., et al.. (1998). Knowledge-based space-time adaptive processing for airborne early warning radar. IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine. 13(4). 37–42. 53 indexed citations

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