Open AccessAssessing detector performance, with application to Pareto coherent multilook radar detection
Author(s) -
Weinberg Graham Victor
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
iet radar, sonar and navigation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.489
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1751-8792
pISSN - 1751-8784
DOI - 10.1049/iet-rsn.2012.0127
Subject(s) - detector , clutter , benchmark (surveying) , context (archaeology) , radar , radar detection , matched filter , pareto principle , gaussian , statistical power , computer science , algorithm , mathematics , physics , statistics , telecommunications , paleontology , geodesy , quantum mechanics , biology , geography
A necessary and sufficient condition is established, which can be used to compare the performance of two radar detection schemes. This means that the performance of detectors can be measured relative to a benchmark detector. In the context of coherent multilook detection in a Pareto clutter environment, the whitening matched filter (WMF) detector, which is optimal for Gaussian clutter, has been observed to perform very well as a suboptimal detector. Based upon this, variations of the WMF are constructed and analysed.