Calculating the Performance of Linear and Square-Law Detectors

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 39-51

  Bird, John S ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL THEORY; SONAR; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CONSTANT AMPLITUDE RANDOM PHASE RETURNS; LINEAR DETECTORS; NONCOHERENT INTEGRATION; NONFLUCTUATING TARGETS; PULSE REPETITION INTERVAL; SQUARE LAW DETECTORS; TARGET DETECTION;

RADAR;

EID: 0029228164     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.366290     Document Type: Article

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