Signal Detection in Correlated Gaussian and Non-Gaussian Radar Clutter

Abstract

The subject of this report is the detection of weak targets in a strong clutter environment. Two situations arise depending on whether or not the weak targets can be separated from the clutter. For both cases new receivers are derived which provide significant improvement in performance over other recently proposed techniques. This work includes development of an adaptive joint-domain space-time processor, effective non-gaussian weak signal detectors based on spherically invariant random processes, and a new method for approximating the underlying probability density function of random data which works extremely well with only 100 samples. Locally optimum detector, Spherically invariant, Random processes, Probability density function, Weak signal detector, Radar, Space-time processing, Clutter, Non-gaussian

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA267453

Entities

People

  • D. Weiner
  • Hao Wang
  • Ling Cai
  • Muralidhar Rangaswamy
  • P. Chakravarthi

Organizations

  • Kaman Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angle Of Arrival
  • Computational Science
  • Data Science
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Distribution Functions
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Gaussian Processes
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Mathematical Filters
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Radar
  • Random Variables
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Stochastic Processes

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Statistical inference.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects