Performance analysis of GLRT-based adaptive detector for distributed targets in compound-Gaussian clutter

Signal Processing

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-23

  Shuai, Xiaofei ^a   Kong, Lingjiang ^a   Yang, Jianyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Distributed targets; Generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT); Maximum likelihood (ML) estimation; Secondary data

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE DETECTION; ADAPTIVE DETECTORS; COMPLEXITY ISSUES; COVARIANCE MATRIX ESTIMATION; DATA VECTORS; DISTRIBUTED TARGET; DISTRIBUTED TARGETS; ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; GAUSSIANS; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST (GLRT); GLRT DETECTOR; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (ML) ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE LOSS; SECONDARY DATA; SIMULATION RESULT; STEP DETECTION;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DETECTORS; ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADAR CLUTTER; TARGETS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 69249217719     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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