A Real Time (On Line) Adaptive Target Detection Technique For An Airborne Millimeter Wave Seeker Design

A. B Mahmoodi; M. Kaveh

doi:10.1117/12.936200

9 January 1984 A Real Time (On Line) Adaptive Target Detection Technique For An Airborne Millimeter Wave Seeker Design

A. B Mahmoodi, M. Kaveh

Proceedings Volume 0424, Airborne Reconnaissance VII; (1984) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936200
Event: 27th Annual Technical Symposium, 1983, San Diego, United States

Abstract

An adaptive technique for detection of ground stationary targets in a variable clutter environment by an airborne millimeter wave radar is presented. The scheme consists of three basic units: an adaptive decorrelator, a clutter classifier, and a constant false alarm rate (CFAR) processor. Due to the inherent nature of radar returns (echoes), the signal consisting of target(S), clutter(C), and noise(N) are highly correlated. These signals are passed through a whitening matched filters combination. The selection of the parameters of whitening and matched filters is performed through an adaptive identification scheme (Kalman algorithm) using autoregressive(AR) and autoregressive-moving average(ARMA) models. The output of the matched filter is then passed through the pattern classifier unit, which determines whether the given clutter sample belongs to the Log-normal type or Weibull type statistical distribution families, and determines the appropriate detection threshold for the CFAR processor unit.

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A. B Mahmoodi and M. Kaveh "A Real Time (On Line) Adaptive Target Detection Technique For An Airborne Millimeter Wave Seeker Design", Proc. SPIE 0424, Airborne Reconnaissance VII, (9 January 1984); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936200

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