Signal detection in compound-Gaussian noise: Neyman-Pearson and CFAR detectors

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 419-428

  Conte, Ernesto ^a   De Maio, Antonio ^a   Galdi, Carmela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR); NEYMAN-PEARSON CRITERIA;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0033908063     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.823969     Document Type: Article

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