• DocumentCode
    2385343
  • Title

    Estimation of the covariance matrix for adaptive CFAR detection in compound-Gaussian clutter

  • Author

    Conte, E. ; De Maio, A. ; Ricci, Giuseppe

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. di Napoli Federico II, Italy
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    84
  • Abstract
    We deal with the estimation of the structure of the covariance matrix of the noise and its application to adaptive radar detection of coherent pulse trains in compound-Gaussian clutter. Resorting to secondary data, free of signal components, we propose an estimator which, plugged into the NMF in place of the actual covariance matrix, leads to an adaptive detector CFAR with respect to the statistics of the noise
  • Keywords
    Gaussian processes; adaptive signal detection; covariance matrices; parameter estimation; radar clutter; radar detection; adaptive CFAR detection; adaptive radar detection; coherent pulse trains; compound-Gaussian clutter; covariance matrix estimation; generalized likelihood ratio test; noise covariance matrix; noise statistics; secondary data; system design; Adaptive signal detection; Covariance matrix; Design optimization; Detectors; Radar clutter; Radar detection; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Sorrento
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5857-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2000.866374
  • Filename
    866374