The effect of a logarithmic receiver on the detection performance of a radar has been determined by Green by numerical computations for up to 100 pulses integrated. It was further suggested that the loss in decibels as compared to a square-law detector would appear to be proportional to the logarithm of the number of pulses integrated. In this correspondence we show that this "conjecture" is false, and that the additional loss when N becomes very large approaches a constant value of 2.2 dB.


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    Title :

    Postdetection Integration Loss for Logarithmic Detectors


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    Publication date :

    1972-05-01


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    554973 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English