Estimation of non-Rayleigh clutter and fluctuating-target models

IEE Proceedings: Radar, Sonar and Navigation

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 231-241

  Lew, H ^a   Drumheller, D M ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SONAR;

RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS (ROC);

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036807045     PISSN: 13502395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-rsn:20020624     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (24)

1. Conte, E., Lops, M., and Ricci, G.: 'Asymptotically optimum radar detection in compound-gaussian clutter', IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst., 1995, 31, (2), pp. 617-625.
2. Bucciarelli, T., Lombardo, P., and Tamburrini, S.: 'Optimum CFAR detection against compound Gaussian clutter with partially correlated texture', IEE Proc., Radar Sonar Navig., 1996, 143, pp. 95-104.
3. Gini, F., Greco, M.V., Farina, A., and Lombardo, P.: 'Optimum and mismatched detection against K-distributed plus Gaussian clutter', IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst., 1998, 34, pp. 860-876.
4. Raghavan, R.S.: 'A method for estimating parameters of K-distributed clutter', IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst., 1991, 27, pp. 238-246.
5. Lombardo, P., and Oliver, C.J.: 'Estimation of texture parameters in K-distributed clutter', IEE Proc., Radar Sonar Navig., 1994, 141, pp. 196-204.
6. Lombardo, P., Oliver, C.J., and Tough, R.J.A.: 'The effect of noise on order parameter estimation for K-distributed clutter', IEE Proc., Radar Sonar Navig., 1995, 142, pp. 33-40.
7. Iskander, D.R., and Zoubir, A.M.: 'Estimation of the parameters of the K-distribution using higher order and fractional moments', IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst., 1999, 35, pp. 1453-1457.
8. Blake, I.F.: 'On a class of processes arising in linear estimation theory', IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1968, IT-14, (1), pp. 12-16.
9. Yao, K.: 'A representation theorem and its applications to spherically-invariant random processes', IEEE Trans, Inf. Theory, 1973, IT-19, (5), pp. 600-608.
10. Goldman, J.: 'Detection in the presence of spherically symmetric random vectors', IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1976, IT-22, (1), pp. 52-59.
11. Gradshteyn, I.S., and Ryzhik, I.M.: 'Table of integrals, series, and products' (Academic Press, New York, 1980).
12. Papoulis, A.: 'Signal analysis' (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1977) Chap. 8.
13. Whalen, A.D.: 'Detection of signals in noise' (Academic Press, New York, 1971).
14. Cramer, H.: 'Mathematical methods of statistics' (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1946).
15. Alexandrou, D., De Moustier, C., and Haralabus, G.: 'Evaluation and verification of bottom acoustic reverberation statistics predicted by the point scattering model', J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 1992, 91, (3), pp. 1403-1413.
16. Stacy, E.W.: 'A generalization of the gamma distribution', Ann. Math. Stat., 1962, 33, (3), pp. 1187-1192.
17. Sangston, K.J., and Gerlach, K.R.: 'Non-Gaussian noise models and coherent detection of radar targets'. Report 9367, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, Nov. 1992.
18. Sangston, K.J., and Gerlach, K.R.: 'Coherent detection of radar targets in a non-Gaussian background', IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst., 1994, 30, (2), pp. 330-340.
19. Lee, Y.: 'A novel approach to fitting a multimodal Rayleigh distribution'. Internal Report, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, Aug. 1987.
20. Abraham, D.A.: 'Statistical normalization of non-Rayleigh reverberation'. Proceedings of IEEE Oceans'97, Halifax, Canada, 1997, pp. 500-505.
21. Lawson, C.L., and Hanson, R.J.: 'Solving least squares problems' (Prentice-Hall, 1974).
22. Drumheller, D.M.: 'Padé approximations to matched filter amplitude probability functions', IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst., 1999, 25, (3), pp. 1033-1045.
23. Drumheller, D.M., and Lew, H.: 'Padé approximations to Rician statistical functions', IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst., 1999, 35, (4), pp. 1421-1428.
24. Drumheller, D.M, and Lew, H.: 'Target detection using a linear sum of matched filter outputs'. Report 7140-99-8385, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, Jun. 1999.