Detection of fixed targets embedded in log-normal clutter
Abstract
Measurements of radar clutter using high-resolution systems show that clutter echoes cannot be modelled as Gaussian-distributed. A log-normal distribution is assumed and single-pulse detection performances are evaluated according to the Marcum-Swerling approach as well as the signal losses with respect to the Gaussian case.
- Publication:
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Electronics Letters
- Pub Date:
- November 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1049/el:19850807
- Bibcode:
- 1985ElL....21.1140B
- Keywords:
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- Clutter;
- Probability Density Functions;
- Radar Echoes;
- Radar Resolution;
- Signal To Noise Ratios;
- High Resolution;
- Polynomials;
- Communications and Radar