The performance analysis of a fourth-moment detector

Author

Maranda, Brian H. ; Fawcett, John A.

Author_Institution

Defence Res. Establ. Pacific, Victoria, BC, Canada

fYear

1990

fDate

3-6 Apr 1990

Firstpage

1357

Abstract

The performance of a fourth-moment detector for a burst-noise signal in background noise is compared with that of a conventional quadratic detector when a fixed-length observation window is employed. The burst duration is assumed to be unknown, so there may be a significant mismatch between the length of the signal and that of the observation window. The results quantify the signal-to-noise ratio advantage of the fourth-law detector over it square-law counterpart when the signal duration is much shorter than the integration time and show the crossover point at which the two detectors perform equivalently

Keywords

signal detection; white noise; Gaussian white process; background noise; burst duration; burst-noise signal; fixed-length observation window; fourth-law detector; fourth-moment detector; integration time; performance analysis; quadratic detector; signal length; signal-to-noise ratio; Acoustic noise; Acoustic signal detection; Background noise; Detectors; Gaussian noise; Performance analysis; Probability density function; Signal to noise ratio; Statistics; Underwater tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1990. ICASSP-90., 1990 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

ISSN

1520-6149

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1990.115634

Filename

115634