Employing fractional autocorrelation for fast detection and sweep rate estimation of pulse compression radar waveforms

Signal Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2479-2489

  Akay, Olcay ^a   Erözden, Erten ^b  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ROKETSAN Missiles Industries Inc   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Detection; Fractional autocorrelation; Pulse compression radar waveforms; Sweep rate estimation

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY FUNCTION; ARBITRARY ANGLES; CHIRP RATES; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DETECTION; DETECTION ALGORITHM; DETECTION STATISTIC; FRACTIONAL AUTOCORRELATION; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD-RATIO TESTS; LFM SIGNAL; LINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATED; LINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATED SIGNALS; MATCHED FILTERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; PULSE COMPRESSION RADAR WAVEFORMS; PULSE COMPRESSION RADARS; RADAR WAVEFORMS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SWEEP RATE ESTIMATION; SWEEP RATES; TIME-FREQUENCY PLANES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CORRELATION FUNCTION; UNBIASED ESTIMATOR;

CORRELATION DETECTORS; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL DEVICES; PULSE COMPRESSION; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

TRACKING RADAR;

EID: 67651121702     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.04.019     Document Type: Article

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