Covariance structure maximum-likelihood estimates in compound Gaussian noise: Existence and algorithm analysis

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-48

  Pascal, Frédéric ^a   Chitour, Yacine ^b   Ovarlez, Jean Philippe ^c   Forster, Philippe ^d   Larzabal, Pascal ^a,e  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^c ONERA   (France)

^d Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Ville d'Avray   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive detection; Compound Gaussian; Constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detector; Maximum likelihood (ML) estimate; Spherically invariant random vectors (SIRV)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); ITERATIVE METHODS; RADAR SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE DETECTION; COMPOUND GAUSSIAN; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR) DETECTOR; SPHERICALLY INVARIANT RANDOM VECTORS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 37749041370     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.901652     Document Type: Article

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