Title :
Further Results on the Detection of Targets in Non-Gaussian Sea Clutter
Author_Institution :
Naval Research Lab., Washington, D. C. 20390
fDate :
5/1/1971 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A recent work calculated the probabilities of detection and false alarm for the mean and median detectors for the log-normal and contaminated-normal descriptions of sea clutter. This correspondence extends the previous work by first calculating the performance of the trimmed-mean detector and then calculating the detection performance of all three detectors when the target exhibits Rayleigh fluctuations. Finally, a simple example is used to show that the optimal beamwidth of a radar need not be the smallest obtainable beamwidth.
Keywords :
Clutter; Detectors; Erbium; Fluctuations; Log-normal distribution; Monte Carlo methods; Probability; Radar detection; Statistical distributions; Tin;
Journal_Title :
Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAES.1971.310301