Adaptive matched filter detection in spherically invariant noise

1 August 1996

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Vol. 3 (8) , 248-250
https://doi.org/10.1109/97.511809

Abstract

The article addresses radar detection of coherent pulse trains embedded in spherically invariant noise with unknown statistics. Starting upon a newly proposed detector, which assumes knowledge of the structure of the clutter covariance matrix, we substitute the actual matrix by a proper estimate based on a set of secondary data vectors. Interestingly, the resulting detector achieves a constant false alarm rate with respect to the texture component of the clutter, and incurs an acceptable loss with respect to the case of a known covariance matrix.

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