Threshold optimization for distributed order-statistic CFAR signal detection

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 368-377

  Blum, Rick S ^a   Qiao, Jinfen ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DECISION THEORY; PROBABILITY; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; DISTRIBUTED ORDER STATISTICS; FUSION RULES; NOISE PLUS CLUTTER POWER; THRESHOLD OPTIMIZATION;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0029736098     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.481276     Document Type: Article

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