Title :
Threshold Control for Automatic Detection in Radar Systems
Author :
McLane, P.J. ; Wittke, P.H. ; Ip, C.K.-S.
Author_Institution :
Queen´´s University
fDate :
3/1/1982 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
In automatic detection in radar systems an estimate of background clutter power is used to set the detection threshold. Usually detection cells surrounding the cell under test for the presence of a target are used to estimate the clutter power. In the research reported herein, the target location is taken to be uncertain and thus returns from a target could corrupt this clutter power estimate. It is shown how the threshold should be varied to compensate for the resulting degradation in detection performance. The threshold control procedure is based on a priori information about target location that could be supplied by the radar´s tracking system. In addition, a simple procedure for calculating detection and false alarm probabilities for Swerling II target models is presented.
Keywords :
Automatic control; Control systems; Degradation; Density functional theory; Probability; Radar clutter; Radar detection; Radar tracking; Target tracking; Testing;
Journal_Title :
Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAES.1982.309234