Receiver operating characteristics for a class of three channel receivers

Author

Kenefic, Richard

Author_Institution

Undersea Sensor Syst. Inc., East Columbia City, IN, USA

Volume

35

Issue

2

fYear

1999

fDate

4/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

743

Lastpage

744

Abstract

The probability density function for signal absent is obtained for a class of three channel receivers commonly used for direction finding. The receiver considered here is closely related to the multiplicative array processors first considered by Miller (1973). The false alarm probability and noise mean are derived. The statistics for signal present appear to be intractable, but the false alarm statistics presented here may be used to properly set the threshold for a Monte-Carlo study of detection performance. Detection probability is presented for an example case

Keywords

Gaussian distribution; Gaussian noise; Monte Carlo methods; direction-of-arrival estimation; radio direction-finding; signal detection; Gaussian noise; Monte-Carlo study; bearing estimation; detection performance; detection probability; false alarm probability; multiplicative array processors; noise mean; probability density function; radio direction finding; receiver operating characteristics; signal absent; signal statistics; three channel receivers; windowed FFT; Array signal processing; Bandwidth; Direction of arrival estimation; Envelope detectors; Frequency; Gaussian noise; Probability density function; Random variables; Receivers; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9251

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/7.766955

Filename

766955