Optimal rank algorithm for the detection of optical signals
Abstract
Relationships are obtained for determining the threshold value of optimal rank statistics for the detection of faint optical signals. The operating characteristics of a detector based on the optimal rank algorithm (ORA) are presented. It is shown that the efficiency of the ORA is significantly higher than that of the quasi-optimal (rank sum) algorithm and is close to that of the classical (photoelectron counter) algorithm.
- Publication:
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Radiotekhnika i Elektronika
- Pub Date:
- December 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984RaEl...29.2381S
- Keywords:
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- Optical Communication;
- Rank Tests;
- Signal Detection;
- Video Signals;
- Algorithms;
- Optimization;
- Photoelectrons;
- Communications and Radar