Selected Recent (1993-Present)
Publications 
Books and Book Chapters
  1. M. A. Richards, A. J. Gadient and G. A. Frank, editors, Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
  2. M. A. Richards, editor, "Synthetic Aperture Processing," Chapter 10 in G. V. Morris, Airborne Pulsed Doppler Radar, 2nd edition,Artech House, Norwood, Massachusetts, 1996.
  3. M. A. Richards, editor, "Doppler Processing," Chapter 8 in G. V. Morris, Airborne Pulsed Doppler Radar, 2nd edition, Artech House, Norwood, Massachusetts, 1996.
  4. M. A. Richards, J. A. Scheer and J. L. Kurtz, editors, "Nonlinear Effects in Fourier Transform Processing," Chapter 6 in Coherent Radar Performance. Artech House, Norwook, Massachusetts, 1993.
  5. M. A. Richards, J. A. Scheer and J. L. Kurtz, editors, "Motion Compensation Fundamentals," Chapter 7 in Coherent Radar Performance. Artech House, Norwook, Massachusetts, 1993.
Refereed Papers
  1. P. Chen, W. Melvin and M. Wicks,  "Screening Among Multivariate Normal Data," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Accepted for Publication, August 1998.
  2. K.J. Sangston, M.N. Cohen, V.B. Sylvester, G.A. Showman, L.L. Gostin, and C.R. Scheer, “Generation and assessment of turntable SAR data for the support of ATR development”,  Proceedings of SPIE Radar Processing, Technology, and Applications III, San Diego,  July 1998.
  3. K.J. Sangston, A.A. Partizian, J.A. Scheer, G.A. Showman, J.W. Kemp, L.L. Gostin, B.H. Hudson, M.H. Smith, R.A. Maier, C.R. Scheer, and E. J. Sikora, “Electronic Protection Technique for Synthetic Aperture Radar to Counter Range- Ambiguous, Coherent, Ground-based Jamming”. Proceedings of the 44rd Annual Tri-Service Radar  Symposium, West Point, NY, June 1998.
  4. W.L. Melvin and D.R. Frey, "Continuous-Time to Discrete-Time Conversion Via a Novel Parametrized S-to-Z-Plane Mapping," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part II, October 1997, pp. 829-834.
  5. W.L. Melvin, "Eigenbased Modeling of Nonhomogeneous Airborne Radar Environments," Proc. of the 1998 IEEE National Radar Conference, Dallas, TX, May 1998.
  6. W.L. Melvin, "Simplifying the Computational Aspects of STAP," A.W. Bojanczyk, Proc. of the 1998 IEEE National Radar Conference, Dallas, TX, May 1998.
  7. K.J. Sangston, A. Farina, F. Gini, and S. Greco, "Coherent Adaptive Radar Detection in Non-Gaussian Clutter”, Proceedings of the 31st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 1997.
  8. V. B.Sylvester, M. N. Cohen, J. M. Baden,and M. R. Fox,“An Exploration of ATR Discriminant Post-Processing Techniques and How They May be Combined to Improve Target ID Performance(U)”, Proceedings of the 43RD Tri-Service Radar Symposium, Boulder, CO, 25 June 1997.  SECRET
  9. C. F. Barnes, K. J. Sangston, and M. A. Richards, "A Simple Post-Range Compression SAR Electronic Protection Technique," Proceedings 43rd Tri-Service Radar Symposium, June 24-26, 1997. SECRET
  10. G. A. Showman, K. J. Sangston, M. A. Richards, and F. L. Moorefield, "Correction of Artifacts in 2-D and 3-D Turntable Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Images of Targets of Military Interest," Proceedings 43rd Tri-Service Radar Symposium, June 24-26, 1997. SECRET
  11. K.J. Sangston, G.V. Morris, B.V. Perry, S.O. Piper, T. Bass, N. Pequinot, and A.M. Gardner, “Detection of False Targets Generated by Digital RF Memory (DRFM) in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery”, Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Tri-Service Radar Symposium, Boulder CO, June 1997.
  12. W.L. Melvin, E.A. Schlueter,  and M.C. Wicks, "Evaluation of Adaptive Post-Doppler Sequential Beam Processing for AWACS," Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Tri-Service Radar Symposium, Boulder, CO,  June 24-26, 1997 (Classified SECRET).
  13. W.L. Melvin and M.C. Wicks, "Improving Practical Space-Time Adaptive Radar," Proc. of the 1997 IEEE National Radar Conference, Syracuse, NY, May 13-15, 1997.
  14. K.J. Sangston,“Toward a Theory of Ultrawideband Sea Scatter”, Proceedings of the NATRAD97 National Radar Conference, Syracuse, NY, May 1997.
  15. G. A. Showman, K. J. Sangston, M. A. Richards, and F. L. Moorefield, "Correction of Artifacts in Turntable Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Images," Proceedings SPIE Aerosense, April 1997.
  16. V. B.Sylvester, M.N. Cohen, J. M. Baden,and M. R. Fox, “Performance of a Synthetic-Based Air-to-Air Target Identification Algorithm(U),” Proceedings of CISC’97, Secret, San Diego, CA, April 1997.
  17. V. B.Sylvester, M.N. Cohen, and Bittar, “Post-Processing Options and their Effects on Target Identification Performance”, Proceedings of the SPIE 11th Annual AeroSense Symposium, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition VI Conference, Advances in Non-Cooperative Target Recognition Session, April 1997.
  18. K.J. Sangston,“Analytical Aspects of Ultrawideband Sea Scatter”, Proceedings of the SPIE Vol. 3066, Radar Sensor Technology II, April 1997
  19. W.L. Melvin, M.C. Wicks and P. Chen, "Sample Selection for Improved Adaptive Airborne Radar," Proc. of the 5th Annual Workshop on Adaptive Sensor Array Processing, MIT Lincoln Lab, Lexington, MA, 12-14 March 1997.
  20. M. A. Richards, A. J. Gadient, G. A. Frank, and R. Harr, "The RASSP Program: Origin, Concepts, and Status: An Introduction to the Issue," J. VLSI Signal Processing, vol. 15, nos. 1 & 2, pp. 7-27, Jan. 1997.
  21. W.L. Melvin and D.R. Frey, "System Order Effects on Discretization of Continuous-Time Systems," Proc. of the IASTED International Conf. on Signal and Image Processing- SIP-96, Orlando, FL, November 11-14, 1996.
  22. W.L. Melvin and B. Himed, "Comparative Analysis of Space-Time Adaptive Algorithms With Measured Airborne Data," Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology (ICSPAT '96), Boston, MA, October 7-10, 1996.
  23. G. V. Morris, L.L. Gostin, A. A. Partizian, K. J. Sangston, M. A. Richards, and F. D. Moorefield, "Test Results of an Electronic Protection Technique to Counter Digital RF Memory (DRFM) Jamming of Synthetic Aperture Radar," Proceedings 42nd Tri-Service Radar Symposium, June 1996. SECRET
  24. K.J. Sangston, A. Farina, F. Gini, and M. Greco“Optimum and Suboptimum Coherent Radar Detection in Compound Gaussian Clutter: A Data-Dependent Threshold Interpretation”, Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE National Radar Conference, Ann Arbor, May 1996.
  25. W. Melvin, R. Brown and M. Wicks, "Effects of Coherent Repeater Jamming on Space-Time Adaptive Radar (U)," Proceedings of the 1996 Joint Electronic Warfare Conference (JEWC), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, May 13-16, 1996, (Proceedings classified SECRET, paper UNCLASSIFIED)
  26. W.L. Melvin, M.C. Wicks and R.D. Brown, "Assessment of Multichannel Airborne Radar Measurements for Analysis and Design of Space-Time Processing Architectures and Algorithms," Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE National Radar Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 13-16, 1996
  27.  J. Corley, V. Madisetti, and M. A. Richards, "Introduction to ARPA's Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) Program," Proceedings 1995 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing, May 1995.
  28. W.L. Melvin and D.R. Frey, "Parametrized Mapping and Integral Approaches for the Discretization of Continuous-Time Systems," Proc. of the IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing- SIP-95, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 20-23, 1995
  29. J. Pridmore, W. Schaming, A. Bard, R. Reitmeyer, and M. A. Richards, "Rapid Prototyping for Embedded Signal Processors," Digest of Papers, 1994 Government Microcircuit Applications Conference (GOMAC), San Diego, California, November 7 - 10, 1994.
  30. M. A. Richards, "The Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) Program: Overview and Status," pp. 1 -6, Proceedings of the Fifth Intl. Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping, Grenoble, France, June 20 -  23, 1994. (invited)
  31. M. A. Richards, R. Marshall, J. Montoya, and J. Galliano, "Characteristics of Civil Aviation Atmospheric Hazards," Fifth Combined Manufacturers' and Technologists' Airborne Windshear Review Meeting, Hampton, Virginia, September 28-30, 1993.
Other Papers and Presentations
  1. W. Melvin, "Unique Features of Subspace Processing for Adaptive Radar in Inhomogeneous Environments", 31st Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (SSST99), March 1999.
  2. K.J. Sangston, A. Farina, F. Gini, and S. Greco, “Structures for Coherent Radar Detection in Compound Gaussian Clutter” to appear in IEEE Transactions on AES, Jan. 1999.
  3. J. Scheer, M. Richards, R. Janka, et al., "Mobile Artillery Tracking Radar System Concept Design," GTRI Final Technical Report submitted to the Army Research Laboratory, July 1998.
  4. W. Melvin, M. Wicks, P. Antonik, Y. Salama, P. Li, H. Schuman, "Knowledge-Based Space-Time Adaptive Processing for AEW Radar," IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, April 1998, pps. 37-42.
  5. Thomas, Rogers, Sylvester, Cohen, Morgan, et al., “Air Target Algorithm Development”, Final Technical Report, GTRI Project A-9117, USAF Contract No. F33615-91-C-1749, December 1997.
  6. R. Janka, “Graphical Tools Enhance Productivity,” Electronic Engineering Times, July 7, 1997
  7. Keel, B.M., Baden, J.M., and Cohen, M.N., "Pulse Compression Waveforms for Use in High-Resolution Signature Formation", SPIE,3068:538-549,1997.
  8. R. Janka, A. Clouard, O. Debon, and J.-C. Mison, “Graphical Application Software Development for Deployable Heterogeneous Multicomputers,” presented at Eighth International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology, San Diego, CA, 1997.
  9. R. Janka, “Bridging the Development Gap of Real-Time Embedded Multiprocessor Signal Processing Systems,” presented at DSP World Spring Design Conference, Washington D.C., 1997.
  10. R. Janka, “Multiprocessor Software Development for RACEway-based Real-Time Signal Processing Systems,” presented at Real-Time Computer Show & Conference, San Jose, CA, 1997. 2.R. Janka, “The Use of Application Software Mapping Tools for Real-Time Embedded Multiprocessor Signal Processing Systems,” presented at DSP World Spring Design Conference, Washington D.C., 1997.
  11. V. Madisetti and M. A. Richards, "Advances In Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems," guest editorial, IEEE Design and Test of Computers, pp. 9-11, Fall 1996.
  12. K.J. Sangston, A. Farina, F. Gini, M. Greco, F. Lombardini, and L. Verrazzani,“Radar Detection of Targets: New Theoretical Findings and Results by Processing Recorded Live Data”,   to be presented during plenary session of CIE International Conference on Radar 96, Beijing, China, October 1996.
  13. K.J. Sangston, R. Lang,“An Assessment of the Foldy Methodology”, presented at the 1996 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Innsbruck, Austria, July 1996.
  14. Keel, B.M. and Baxa Jr., E.G., "An Overdetermined Approach to Autocorrelation Based Spectral Moment Estimators for Use in Doppler Weather Radar", National Radar Conference, 1996.
  15. K.J. Sangston, “Wave Propagation in a One-Dimensional Slab of Correlated Discrete Scatterers”, presented at the 1995 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Seattle, Washington, July, 1995.
  16. K.J. Sangston, “Statistics of Scattered Waves - Implications of a Random Central Limit Theorem”, presented at the 1995 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Seattle, Washington, July, 1995.
  17. K.J. Sangston, “Temporal Behavior of Electromagnetic Waves Scattered from Perfectly Conducting  Rough Surfaces”, presented at the 1995 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Seattle, Washington, July, 1995.
  18. M. A. Richards, "Simulation Libraries for System-Level Design," Hot Topics column, IEEE Computer, pp. 76-77, February 1995.
  19. K.J. Sangston, K. Gerlach, ”A Sharp False Alarm Upper-Bound for a Matched Filter Bank Detector”, IEEE Transactions on IT, Vol 40, No. 3, May 1994.
  20. K.J. Sangston, K. Gerlach, “Coherent Detection of Radar Targets in a Non-Gaussian Background”, IEEE Transactions on AES, Vol. 30, No. 2, April 1994.
  21. A.Cournoyer, R. Janka, and W. Ralston, "Design Specification of the DUSTE-5 UHF Modem", MITRE Technical Report, 1994.
  22. K.J. Sangston, K. Gerlach, “Robust Locally Optimum Detection of Signals in Dependent Noise”,  IEEE Transactions on IT, Vol 39, No. 3, May 1993.