Coherent Multilook Radar Detection for Targets in Pareto Distributed Clutter

Abstract

The Pareto distribution has been proposed recently as a model for intensity clutter measurements, for maritime high resolution radar returns. Using the theory of spherically invariant random processes, the Neyman-Pearson optimal detector is derived. The generalised likelihood ratio test yields a simple suboptimal approximation, and its performance is gauged against the whitening matched filter.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA558202

Entities

People

  • Graham V. Weinberg

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Australia
  • Computational Science
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Distribution Functions
  • Electronic Warfare
  • False Alarms
  • Gaussian Processes
  • Matched Filters
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Radar
  • Random Variables
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Statistical inference.