Performance assessment of CFAR processors in Pearson-distributed clutter

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1377-1386

  Tsakalides, Panagiotis ^a   Trinci, Flippo ^b   Nikias, Chrysostomos L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NETWORK Access Networks   (Italy)

^c University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; DETECTORS; RADAR RECEIVERS;

CELL AVERAGING (CA); CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR) DETECTORS; ORDER STATISTICS (OS); PERCENT TRUNCATED MEAN (PTM);

RADAR CLUTTER;

EID: 0034291777     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.892685     Document Type: Article

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