1. Performance analysis of mean level CFAR detectors in homogeneous gamma-distributed radar clutter.
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Kenane, Elhadi, Khalfa, Ali, Sahed, Mohamed, and Djahli, Farid
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SYNTHETIC aperture radar , *PROBABILITY density function , *CLUTTER (Radar) , *CUMULATIVE distribution function , *EXPONENTIAL sums - Abstract
In this paper, a novel and exact mathematical formulation of three mean level constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detectors has been developed considering a homogeneous gamma-distributed (GM) clutter. These detectors include the cell averaging (CA), the greatest-of (GO), and the smallest-of (SO)-CFAR detection schemes. To do so, we derived closed-form expressions for the probability density function (pdf), and the cumulative distribution function (cdf) of the sum of an exponential fluctuating target submerged in gamma-distributed sea clutter. Then, we developed exact and explicit expressions for the probability of false alarm (Pfa) and probability of detection (Pd) of the optimal fixed threshold detector and the three considered CFAR detectors. The correctness of our expressions is then examined and validated via numerical simulations. Assuming a homogeneous GM background, the detection performance of these three detectors is carried out, discussed, and compared with that of the optimal detector. Experimental results with Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed closed-form expressions and show that the considered CFAR schemes are efficient for ship detection in sea clutter backgrounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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