Several Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) architectures, where radar systems often employ them to automatically adapt the detection threshold to the local background noise or clutter power in an attempt to maintain an ...Several Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) architectures, where radar systems often employ them to automatically adapt the detection threshold to the local background noise or clutter power in an attempt to maintain an approximately constant rate of false alarm, have been recently proposed to estimate the unknown noise power level. Since the Ordered-Statistics (OS) based algorithm has some advantages over the Cell-Averaging (CA) technique, we are concerned here with this type of CFAR detectors. The Linearly Com- bined Ordered-Statistic (LCOS) processor, which sets threshold by processing a weighted ordered range sam- ples within finite moving window, may actually perform somewhat better than the conventional OS detector. Our objective in this paper is to analyze the LCOS processor along with the conventional OS scheme for the case where the radar receiver incorporates a postdetection integrator amongst its contents and where the oper- ating environments contain a number of secondary interfering targets along with the primary target of concern and the two target types fluctuate in accordance with the Swerling II fluctuation model and to compare their performances under various operating conditions.展开更多
文摘Several Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) architectures, where radar systems often employ them to automatically adapt the detection threshold to the local background noise or clutter power in an attempt to maintain an approximately constant rate of false alarm, have been recently proposed to estimate the unknown noise power level. Since the Ordered-Statistics (OS) based algorithm has some advantages over the Cell-Averaging (CA) technique, we are concerned here with this type of CFAR detectors. The Linearly Com- bined Ordered-Statistic (LCOS) processor, which sets threshold by processing a weighted ordered range sam- ples within finite moving window, may actually perform somewhat better than the conventional OS detector. Our objective in this paper is to analyze the LCOS processor along with the conventional OS scheme for the case where the radar receiver incorporates a postdetection integrator amongst its contents and where the oper- ating environments contain a number of secondary interfering targets along with the primary target of concern and the two target types fluctuate in accordance with the Swerling II fluctuation model and to compare their performances under various operating conditions.
