Detection of narrow-band signals through the FFT and polyphase FFT filter banks: Noncoherent versus coherent integration

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1424-1438

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

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coherent integration; Constant false alarm rate (CFAR); Detection and estimation; Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) filter bank; Noncoherent integration; Polyphase FFT (PFFT) filter bank; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

COHERENT INTEGRATION; CONSTANT FALSE-ALARM RATE (CFAR); DETECTION AND ESTIMATION; NON COHERENT INTEGRATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTEGRATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

FILTER BANKS;

EID: 77950910999     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2038294     Document Type: Conference Paper

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