Covariance matrix estimation for CFAR detection in correlated heavy tailed clutter

Signal Processing

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1847-1859

  Gini, Fulvio ^a   Greco, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive detection; CFAR detection; Covariance matrix estimation; Heavy tailed noise; Maximum likelihood estimation; Non Gaussian clutter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RADAR CLUTTER;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR) DETECTION; HEAVY-TAILED NOISE;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR);

EID: 0036887912     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(02)00315-8     Document Type: Article

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