03217nam 2200649 a 450 991077882920332120230120042056.01-4696-0266-00-8078-7767-0(CKB)2550000000080112(EBL)837892(OCoLC)773036454(SSID)ssj0000571416(PQKBManifestationID)11341096(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000571416(PQKBWorkID)10618173(PQKB)10613561(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245723(MdBmJHUP)muse23391(Au-PeEL)EBL837892(CaPaEBR)ebr10521875(MiAaPQ)EBC837892(MiAaPQ)EBC4401461(EXLCZ)99255000000008011220110218d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVoices of the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba[electronic resource] a documentary history /Gloria García Rodríguez ; translated by Nancy L. Westrate ; foreword by Ada Ferrer1st ed.Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Pressc20111 online resource (241 p.)Latin America in translation/en traducción/em traduçãoOriginally published: México : Centro de Investigacíon Científica "Ing. Jorge L Tamayo," 1996.0-8078-3218-9 0-8078-7194-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Slavery and its legal regulation : the slave code : royal decree and instructional circular for the indies on the education, treatment, and work regimen of slaves : May 31, 1789 -- Slaveholders and the slave code : statement from Havana's ingenio owners to the king : Havana, January 19, 1790 -- Toward a new slave code -- Slavery and family life -- The plantation social network -- Solidarity in the face of injustice -- The labor relations of Coartado slaves.Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garcia Rodriguez's study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World. A major essay by Garcia, who has done decades of archival research on Cuban slavery, introduces the work, providing a history of the development, maintenance, and economy of the slave system in Cuba, which was abolished in 1886, later than in any country in the Americas except Brazil. The second part of the book features eighty previously unpublished primary docLatin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.SlaveryCubaHistorySourcesSlaveryCubaSlaveryHistorySlavery306.3/62097291García Rodríguez Gloria1573407Westrate Nancy L1573408Ferrer Ada1483612MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778829203321Voices of the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba3849132UNINA07284nam 22005413 450 991100684270332120231110231301.01-83724-604-11-5231-4253-71-78561-914-4(MiAaPQ)EBC6828600(Au-PeEL)EBL6828600(CKB)20159478400041(OCoLC)1291317673(NjHacI)9920159478400041(BIP)081491580(EXLCZ)992015947840004120211221d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRadar Sea Clutter Modelling and Target Detection1st ed.Stevenage :Institution of Engineering & Technology,2022.©2022.1 online resource (414 pages)Radar, Sonar and Navigation 1-78561-913-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- List of symbols -- List of acronyms -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Prologue -- 1.2 Maritime surveillance radars -- 1.3 The sea surface -- 1.4 Clutter characteristics -- 1.5 Sea clutter modelling -- 1.5.1 Electromagnetic scattering models -- 1.5.2 Empirical modelling -- 1.6 Data sets -- 1.6.1 Ingara X-band data set -- 1.6.2 CSIR X-band data set -- 1.7 Book outline -- References -- Chapter 2 Monostatic sea clutter -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Mean backscatter -- 2.2.1 Anomalous propagation -- 2.2.2 Multipath scattering -- 2.2.3 GO-SSA mean backscatter models -- 2.3 Amplitude distributions -- 2.3.1 Distribution models -- 2.3.1.7 KA-Distribution -- 2.3.2 Example fits -- 2.3.3 Effective shape relationships -- 2.4 Sea-spike characteristics -- 2.5 Doppler characteristics -- 2.5.1 Coherent amplitude statistics -- 2.5.2 Mean Doppler spectra -- 2.5.3 Time and range varying spectra -- 2.6 Texture correlation -- References -- Chapter 3 Bistatic sea clutter -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Bistatic geometry -- 3.3 Active bistatic radar -- 3.3.1 Sea clutter measurements -- 3.3.2 In-plane reflectivity -- 3.3.3 Out-of-plane reflectivity -- 3.3.4 Amplitude statistics -- 3.3.5 Correlation -- 3.3.6 Doppler spectra -- 3.3.7 Sea spikes -- 3.4 Passive bistatic radar -- 3.4.1 Sea clutter measurements -- 3.4.2 Data processing -- 3.4.3 Delay/Doppler amplitude statistics -- 3.4.4 Time domain amplitude statistics and correlation -- 3.4.5 Doppler spectra -- 3.4.6 Summary -- 3.5 Discussion on bistatic sea clutter -- References -- Chapter 4 Parametric modelling -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Monostatic mean backscatter -- 4.2.1 Royal Radar Establishment model -- 4.2.2 Sittrop's model -- 4.2.3 Georgia Institute of Technology model -- 4.2.4 The hybrid model.4.2.5 The Technology Service Corporation model -- 4.2.6 The Masuko models -- 4.2.7 The Imaging Radar Systems Group model -- 4.2.8 Naval Research Laboratory model -- 4.2.9 DSTG continuous mean backscatter model -- 4.3 Bistatic mean reflectivity -- 4.3.1 In-plane scattering -- 4.3.2 Out-of-plane scattering -- 4.4 K-distribution shape -- 4.4.1 Low grazing angle models -- 4.4.2 DSTG continuous shape model -- 4.5 Doppler spectrum -- 4.5.1 Mean Doppler spectrum models -- 4.5.2 Temporal decorrelation model -- 4.5.3 Evolving Doppler spectrum model -- 4.6 Spatial correlation -- References -- Chapter 5 Sea clutter simulation -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Uniform Doppler spectrum -- 5.2.1 Memoryless non-linear transform -- 5.3 Evolving Doppler spectrum -- 5.3.1 Frequency domain simulation -- 5.3.2 Time domain simulation -- 5.3.3 Multiple phase centres -- 5.3.4 Scanning radar scenario -- 5.3.5 Simulation examples -- 5.4 Other simulation algorithms -- 5.4.1 Spatially and temporally limited clutter model -- 5.4.2 Compound G2 model -- 5.4.3 Algorithm comparison -- 5.4.4 Summary -- References -- Chapter 6 Performance prediction modelling -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Radar range equation -- 3 Non-coherent processing -- 3.1 Constant target -- 3.2 Fluctuating target -- 3.3 Compound clutter -- 3.4 Correlated returns -- 4 Coherent processing -- 4.1 Doppler filtering -- 4.2 Adaptive processing -- 5 Assessing end-to-end radar performance -- 5.1 Radar performance examples -- 5.2 Simulated performance prediction -- 5.3 Discussion -- References -- Chapter 7 Maritime target detection techniques -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Non-coherent detection -- 7.2.1 Clutter statistics -- 7.2.2 Constant false alarm rate detectors -- 7.2.3 CA-CFAR performance in spatially correlated clutter -- 7.2.4 Scan-to-scan processing -- 7.2.5 Alternative methods -- 7.3 Pareto CFAR detectors.7.3.1 Type I transformed CFAR -- 7.3.2 Type I complete sufficient statistics -- 7.3.3 Type II transformed CFAR -- 7.3.4 Type II Bayesian CFAR -- 7.3.5 Detection results -- 7.3.6 Summary -- 7.4 Coherent detection -- 7.4.1 Multichannel radar -- 7.4.2 Coherent detection strategies -- 7.4.3 Pre-Doppler whitening -- 7.4.4 Post-Doppler detection -- 7.4.5 Post-Doppler whitening -- 7.4.6 Model-based detection -- 7.4.7 Doppler spectrum aliasing -- 7.5 Detection in heterogeneous environments -- 7.5.1 The single data set detector -- 7.5.2 Fixed scale hybrid -- 7.5.3 Variable scale hybrid -- 7.5.4 Texture estimation and normalisation hybrid -- 7.5.5 Detection results -- References -- Chapter 8 New approaches for target detection -- 8.1 Time/frequency target separation -- 8.1.1 Sub-band isolation and reconstruction -- 8.1.2 Sub-band selection -- 8.1.3 Detection performance -- 8.1.4 Summary and future directions -- 8.2 Sparse signal separation -- 8.2.1 Tuned Q wavelet transform -- 8.2.2 Short-time Fourier transform -- 8.2.3 Detection approaches -- 8.2.4 Detection performance -- 8.2.5 Summary and further developments -- 8.3 Dictionary learning -- 8.3.1 Dictionary learning techniques -- 8.3.2 Performance evaluation -- 8.3.3 Detection performance -- 8.3.4 Summary and further developments -- 8.4 Track before detect -- 8.4.1 Mathematical models -- 8.4.2 The Bernoulli track before detect filter -- 8.4.3 Simulation details -- 8.4.4 Detection and tracking performance -- 8.4.5 Summary and further developments -- References -- Appendix A Goodness of fit metrics -- A.1 Chi-square test -- A.2 Kolmogorov-Smirnov test -- A.3 Bhattacharyya distance -- A.4 Threshold error -- References -- Appendix B Bimodal parameters for the evolving Doppler spectrum -- References -- Appendix C Atmospheric and precipitation losses -- References -- Index.This book presents comprehensive coverage of new research into sea clutter characterisation and modelling, radar performance prediction and maritime target detection. The book also includes a summary of sea-clutter scattering characteristics and datasets provided that can be used for modelling.Radar, Sonar and Navigation Radar targetsRadar targets.621.3Rosenberg Luke1825201Watts Simon1825202MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911006842703321Radar Sea Clutter4392719UNINA