A serious degradation of detection probability (Pd) in a cellaverging constant false alarm rate (CA-CFAR) detector is known to be caused by the presence of an interfering target in the set of reference cells. A technique which is often used to prevent excessive false alarms at clutter "edges" is a "greatest of" (GO) selection between the leading and lagging sets of cells (GO-CFAR). However, it is demonstrated for a Rayleigh target that the abovementioned suppression effect is more acute in the GO-CFAR. Practically, detection of closely separated targets is almost inhibited. Selection of the "smallest of" (SO) the means for the adaptive threshold has been proposed to alleviate this problem. An analytic expression for Pd of this detector is also derived, and it is shown that though it does prevent the suppression effect, a large sensitivity loss is introduced unless the number of reference cells is sufficiently large. A modified CO-CFAR detector, combining a "censoring" circuit, is proposed for automatic detection in a complex nonhomogeneous environment.


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    Title :

    Analysis of Some Modified Cell-Averaging CFAR Processors in Multiple-Target Situations


    Contributors:
    Weiss, M. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1982-01-01


    Size :

    1740835 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English