APPLICATION OF LOGARITHMIC RECEIVERS TO SIGNAL DETECTION IN NON-STATIONARY BACKGROUNDS.

Abstract

A detailed theoretical treatment of the reduction of a class of non-stationary backgrounds to stationary ones using logarithmic recievers was developed. It is shown that the logarithmic receiver will perform this function on Rayleigh-distributed background and on the output of an OR-circuit having n Rayleigh-distributed inputs. The conditions under which the logarithmic receiver is an appropirate processing device were analyzed; two sufficient conditions on the probability density function of the background are derived. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 18, 1962
Accession Number
AD0645328

Entities

People

  • F. L. Rees
  • R. H. Prager

Organizations

  • Navy Electronics Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cooperation
  • Data Science
  • Detection
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Mathematics
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Random Variables
  • Signal Detection
  • Signal Processing
  • Stationary
  • Target Discrimination

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Statistical inference.