In this paper we discuss the combined use of a priori information and adaptive signal processing techniques for the design and the analysis of a knowledge-aided (KA) radar receiver for Doppler processing. To this end, resorting to the generalized likelihood function (GLF) criterion (both one-step and two-step), we design and assess data-adaptive procedures for the selection of training data. Then we introduce a KA radar detector composed of three elements: a geographic-map-based data selector, which exploits some a priori information concerning the topography of the observed scene, a data-adaptive training selector which removes dynamic outliers from the training data, and an adaptive radar detector which performs the final decision about the target presence. The performance of the KA algorithm is analyzed both on simulated as well as on real radar data collected by the McMaster University IPIX radar. The results show that the new KA system achieves a satisfactory performance level and can outperform some previously proposed adaptive detection schemes


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    Title :

    Design and analysis of a knowledge-aided radar detector for doppler processing


    Contributors:
    Conte, E. (author) / De Maio, A. (author) / Farina, A. (author) / Foglia, G. (author)


    Publication date :

    2006-07-01


    Size :

    4131745 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English