Low signal-to-clutter ratio processing of radar signals

Prakash R. Chakravarthi; Donald D. Weiner

doi:10.1117/12.179101

6 July 1994 Low signal-to-clutter ratio processing of radar signals

Prakash R. Chakravarthi, Donald D. Weiner

Proceedings Volume 2235, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 1994; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.179101
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1994, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

In radar problems involving weak signal detection conventional space-time processing cannot be used to separate the target from the clutter when the spatial and Doppler spectra of the target and clutter overlap. In such problems the concept of the locally optimum detector (LOD) is useful in coming up with a decision rule to discriminate between the two hypotheses of signal present or signal absent. The clutter, which may be correlated, can arise from either a non-Gaussian or Gaussian random process. For correlated multivariate K-distributed clutter it is shown in this paper that performance improvements can be obtained with an LOD receiver compared to the conventional Gaussian linear receiver.

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Prakash R. Chakravarthi and Donald D. Weiner "Low signal-to-clutter ratio processing of radar signals", Proc. SPIE 2235, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 1994, (6 July 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.179101

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