Recursive estimation of the covariance matrix of a compound-Gaussian process and its application to adaptive CFAR detection

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1908-1915

  Conte, Ernesto ^a   De Maio, Antonio ^a   Ricci, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive detection; Constant false alarm rate; Covariance matrix estimation; Non Gaussian noise

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SIGNAL DETECTION; VECTORS;

COVARIANCE MATRICES;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0036683911     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2002.800412     Document Type: Article

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