Title :
On radar signal detection in partially correlated clutter
Author :
Prastitis, Loizos A. ; Frank, Joseph ; Himonas, Stelios D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The authors propose a new adaptive thresholding technique for Rayleigh envelope distributed signals and noise, in which noise power residues instead of noise power estimates are processed. The proposed detector is referred to as the residual cell averaging (RCA) constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detector. They describe and analyze the RCA-CFAR detector. Possible extensions of this work are briefly stated. The merits of the proposed technique in rejecting interferences in the noise samples are also discussed
Keywords :
interference suppression; radar clutter; radar theory; signal detection; Rayleigh envelope distributed signals; adaptive thresholding; constant false alarm rate; interference suppression; noise power estimates; noise power residues; partially correlated clutter; radar signal detection; residual cell averaging; Background noise; Detectors; Interference; Matched filters; Probability; Radar clutter; Radar signal processing; Signal detection; Testing; Working environment noise;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1991. Proceedings., IEEE/AIAA 10th
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
DOI :
10.1109/DASC.1991.177195
