Performance analysis of some CFAR detectors in homogeneous and non-homogeneous Pearson-distributed clutter

Signal Processing

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2115-2122

  Meziani, Hilal Abdenour ^a   Soltani, Faouzi ^a  

^a Universite Mentouri Constantine   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Cfar detection; Non homogeneous clutter; Pearson V distribution

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CFAR DETECTION; GO-CFAR DETECTORS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS CLUTTER; PEARSON V DISTRIBUTION;

DETECTORS;

EID: 33744538029     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2006.02.036     Document Type: Article

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