Sample Selection for Covariance Estimation in Practical Airborne Environments.

Abstract

In this technical memorandum, a significant observation on a fundamental limitation to space-time adaptive processing in practical airborne environments is briefly discussed. This observation is a result of extensive analysis of measured airborne data from the Multichannel Airborne Radar Measurements (MCARMS) program. In particular, the problem of nonhomogeneous data and its impact on the estimation of the interference covariance matrix, a critical operation in space-time adaptive processing, is considered.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA316361

Entities

People

  • William L. Melvin

Organizations

  • Rome Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Electronic Warfare

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Airborne
  • Command And Control
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Simulations
  • Covariance
  • Data Science
  • Detection
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Environment
  • Filters
  • Information Science
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Signal Processing
  • Statistics
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Statistical inference.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects