Abstract
We evaluate the performances of several distributed CFAR tests operating in nonhomogeneous background conditions. The analysis considers the detection of Rayleigh target in Rayleigh clutter sith the possibility of differing clutter power levels in the test cells of distributed radars. The tests considered include the previously defined maximum order statistic detector (MOS), belonging to a class of signal-plus- order statistic (S+OS) detectors, a new normalized test statistic (NTS), also belonging to the S+OS class, the OR and the AND fusion rules. Numerical results studied for a two radar system show how the false alarm rate of the MOS test changes with differences in the clutter power levels of the test cells. Results also indicate that, with differing test cells' power levels, the OR fusion rule can be quite competitive to more complex tests, viz. NTS and MOS.
Comments
Published in Gowda, C.H., & Viswanathan, R. (1997). Performance of distributed CFAR tests in nonhomogeneous background. IEEE National Radar Conference, 1997, 36 - 41. doi: 10.1109/NRC.1997.588118 ©1997 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.