• DocumentCode
    946589
  • Title

    A range-sampled sequential detection system

  • Author

    Helstrom, Carl W.

  • Volume
    8
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1962
  • fDate
    1/1/1962 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    43
  • Lastpage
    47
  • Abstract
    Sequential analysis has been applied to detecting a radar target of unknown range by sampling the receiver output at instants separated by a Nyquist interval and conducting a sequential test at each sampling time. The antenna beam continues to point in a given direction until all tests have terminated, after which it is moved to a new position. It is shown that this system can search the sky in about half the time needed by an ordinary system of the same sensitivity.
  • Keywords
    Radar detection; Directive antennas; Frequency selective surfaces; Information theory; Radar antennas; Radar detection; Radar theory; Sampling methods; Sequential analysis; Signal detection; System testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IRE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0096-1000
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.1962.1057671
  • Filename
    1057671