• DocumentCode
    2013828
  • Title

    The effects of covariance matrix mismatch on adaptive CFAR performance

  • Author

    Watts, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Thales UK, Crawley, UK
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-12 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    324
  • Lastpage
    329
  • Abstract
    This paper analyses the CFAR performance of the Normalised Adaptive Matched Filter (NAMF) when the estimate of the covariance matrix used to design the filter does not match the clutter in the cell under test. The analysis results are compared with simulations and the potential effects on practical detectors are investigated using a recently developed model for the non-stationary Doppler spectra of sea clutter.
  • Keywords
    Doppler radar; adaptive filters; covariance matrices; matched filters; NAMF; adaptive CFAR performance; cell under test; covariance matrix mismatch; nonstationary Doppler spectra; normalised adaptive matched filter; sea clutter; Adaptation models; Clutter; Covariance matrices; Detectors; Doppler effect; Matched filters; Noise; CFAR; Doppler spectra; NAMF; non-stationarity; sea clutter;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radar (Radar), 2013 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Adelaide, SA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5177-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652007
  • Filename
    6652007