ESTIMATION OF THE RELATION BETWEEN WEIBULL SEA CLUTTER AND THE CA-CFAR SCALE FACTOR

When radars operate in coastal or offshore environments, an undesired signal known as clutter appears as background in the measurements. The CA-CFAR detector is the classic solution for the detection of targets inside clutter, typically using a fixed value for its adjustment factor the entire period...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Machado Fernández, José Raúl
التنسيق: Online
اللغة:eng
منشور في: Universidad de Costa Rica 2015
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/ingenieria/article/view/18209
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الملخص:When radars operate in coastal or offshore environments, an undesired signal known as clutter appears as background in the measurements. The CA-CFAR detector is the classic solution for the detection of targets inside clutter, typically using a fixed value for its adjustment factor the entire period of operation. Using MATLAB, the author simulates the CA-CFAR response under amplitude samples from the classical sea clutter Weibull distribution. As a result, a relation between operating conditions (Weibull shape parameter) and the most efficient adjustment factor is obtained for various false alarm probabilities. Thus, the implementation of a new detector that achieves the adaptation to changing environments through the use of a variable adjustment factor is suggested. Note that sea environment is present in most radar scenarios both in military and meteorological applications.