A Cumulant-Based Adaptive Detection Technique for Optical Wireless Communication Over Strong Turbulence Channels

The optical wireless communication (OWC) is afading channel because of the effect of atmosphericattenuation. We introduce a cumulant-based adaptive detection technique to providehigh performance for OWC. The received signalof OWC over strong turbulence channels is assumedto be a mixture of K-distributed fading andGaussian distributed thermal noise. In order tomitigate the fading induced by turbulence, thedecision threshold-updating algorithm based onsecond and higher order cumulants is proposed,which is able to operate in an unknown turbulenceenvironment. The performance of the adaptiveprocessing scheme has been evaluated by meansof Monte Carlo simulations. It is shown that theproposed approach proves valuable for a limitednumber K of memory data.

Parameterization of the Absorption of the H_(2)O Continuum,CO_(2),O_(2),and Other Trace Gases in the Fu-Liou Solar Radiation Program

The absorption properties of the water vapor continuum and a number of weak bands for H2O, O2, CO2, CO, N2O, CH4, and O3 in the solar spectrum are incorporated into the Fu-Liou radiation parameterization program by using the correlated k-distribution method (CKD) for the sorting of absorption lines. The overlap absorption of the H2O lines and the H2O continuum (2500-14500 cm-1) are treated by taking the two gases as a single-mixture gas in transmittance calculations. Furthermore, in order to optimize the computation efforts, CO2 and CH4 in the spectral region 2850-5250 cm-1 are taken as a new single-mixture gas as well. For overlap involving other absorption lines in the Fu-Liou spectral bands, the authors adopt the multiplication rule for transmittance computations under which the absorption spectra for two gases are assumed to be uncorrelated. Compared to the line-by-line (LBL) computation, it is shown that the errors in fluxes introduced by these two approaches within the context of the CKD method are small and less than 0.48% for the H2O line and continuum in the 2500-14500 cm-1 solar spectral region, -1% for H2O (line)+H2O (continuum)+CO2+CH4 in the spectral region 2850-5250 cm-1, and -1.5% for H2O (line)+H2O (continuum)+O2 in the 7700-14500 cm-1 spectral region. Analysis also demonstrates that the multiplication rule over a spectral interval as wide as 6800 cm-1 can produce acceptable errors with a maximum percentage value of about 2% in reference to the LBL calculation. Addition of the preceding gases increases the absorption of solar radiation under all sky conditions. For clear sky, the increase in instantaneous solar absorption is about 9%-13% (~12 W m^2) among which the H2O continuum produces the largest increase, while the contributions from O2 and CO2 rank second and third, respectively. In cloudy sky, the addition of absorption amounts to about 6-9 W m-2. The new, improved program with the incorporation of the preceding gases produces a smaller solar absorption in clouds due to the reduced solar flux reaching the cloud top.

Infrared radiation simulation of exhaust system by coupling FVM with narrow band k-distribution

A three-dimensional infrared radiation code for exhaust system was developed by the finite volume method coupled with narrow band k-distribution in non-gray absorbing-emitting media.The final infrared signature had considered the atmosphere effect,and the simulation values were favorably consistent with testing ones.The results indicate that the relative errors considering the effect of atmosphere compared with that of the contrary condition reduce by 31%,it shows that when simulating the infrared radiation of the target which is received by the infrared detectors,even the calculation band is in atmospheric windows 3～5 μm,the effect of atmospheric transmission on infrared signature of the target should not be neglected.

Multiple-model GLMB filter based on track-before-detect for tracking multiple maneuvering targets

A generalized labeled multi-Bernoulli(GLMB)filter with motion mode label based on the track-before-detect(TBD)strategy for maneuvering targets in sea clutter with heavy tail,in which the transitions of the mode of target motions are modeled by using jump Markovian system(JMS),is presented in this paper.The close-form solution is derived for sequential Monte Carlo implementation of the GLMB filter based on the TBD model.In update,we derive a tractable GLMB density,which preserves the cardinality distribution and first-order moment of the labeled multi-target distribution of interest as well as minimizes the Kullback-Leibler divergence(KLD),to enable the next recursive cycle.The relevant simulation results prove that the proposed multiple-model GLMB-TBD(MM-GLMB-TBD)algorithm based on K-distributed clutter model can improve the detecting and tracking performance in both estimation error and robustness compared with state-of-the-art algorithms for sea clutter background.Additionally,the simulations show that the proposed MM-GLMB-TBD algorithm can accurately output the multitarget trajectories with considerably less computational complexity compared with the adapted dynamic programming based TBD(DP-TBD)algorithm.Meanwhile,the simulation results also indicate that the proposed MM-GLMB-TBD filter slightly outperforms the JMS particle filter based TBD(JMSMeMBer-TBD)filter in estimation error with the basically same computational cost.Finally,the impact of the mismatches on the clutter model and clutter parameter is investigated for the performance of the MM-GLMB-TBD filter.

A new model to simulate infrared radiation from an aircraft exhaust system

A multi-scale narrow band correlated-k distribution（MSNBCK） model is developed to simulate infrared radiation（IR） from an exhaust system of a typical aircraft engine.In this model,an approximate approach instead of statistically uncorrelated assumption is used to treat overlapping bands in gas mixture.It significantly reduces the requirement for computing power through converting the exponential increase of computing power consumption with the increase of participating gas species to linear increase.Besides,MSNBCK model has a great advantage compared with conventional methods which can estimate each species＇ contribution to the total gas mixture radiation intensity.Line by line（LBL） results,experimental data and other results in the references are used to evaluate this new model,which demonstrates its advantage in terms of accuracy and computing efficiency.By coupling this model and finite volume method（FVM） into radiative transfer equation（RTE）,a comparative study is conducted to simulate IR signature from the exhaust system.The results indicate that wall＇s IR emission should be considered in both 3-5 μm and8-14 μm bands while gases＇ IR emission plays an important role only in 3-5 μm band.For plume IR radiation,carbon dioxide＇s emission is much more significant than that of water vapor in both3-5μm and 8-14 μm bands.Especially in 3-5 μm band,the water vapor＇s IR signal can even be neglected compared with that of carbon dioxide.