In this paper, we present a novel [z log(z)]-based approach to the evaluation of estimators of the K-distributed clutter plus thermal noise parameters. In doing this, we start by deriving expressions of log-based moments of the received data, i.e., means of [log(z)] and [z log(z)], which are related to the parameters of the K plus noise distribution, the digamma, and the hypergeometric functions. Then, by accommodating a single pulse and noncoherent integration of N pulses, respectively, we first determine the new estimators in terms of log-based moments and first- and second-order moments. As the computation of these nonlinear estimates requires the use of numerical routines, we resort to the inverse of the harmonic mean of the received data to get equivalent but more interesting estimates in which expressions are independent of the confluent hypergeometric functions. Monte Carlo simulations show that the proposed estimators are more efficient than existing methods for various clutter plus noise situations.


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    Title :

    A novel [z log(z)]-based closed form approach to parameter estimation of k-distributed clutter plus noise for radar detection


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    Publication date :

    2015-01-01


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    678608 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English