On the performance gain of the FFT filter-bank-based summation and majority CFAR detectors

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1778-1788

  Wang, Sichun ^a   Inkol, Robert ^a   Rajan, Sreeraman ^a   Patenaude, François ^b  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b Radio Science Branch   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constant false alarm rate (CFAR); Detection and estimation; Discrete Fourier transform; Probability of detection; Probability of false alarm; Signal detection; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE (CFAR); DETECTION AND ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; PROBABILITY OF FALSE ALARM; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

BLOCK CODES; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FILTER BANKS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

EID: 67349171094     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.2009399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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