Search radar detection and track with the Hough transform. III.Detection performance with binary integration |
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Authors: | Carlson BD Evans ED Wilson SL |
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Institution: | Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA; |
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Abstract: | For pt.II see ibid., vol. 30, no 1, (Jan. 1994). This paper considers how well a Hough transform detector with binary integration improves the performance of a typical surveillance radar. For Hough transform detection, binary integration offers some advantages over noncoherent integration when multiple targets appear in range-time space or when the detector receives signals with a wide range of power. We derive expressions for PF and PD for a Hough transform binary integrator and apply the expressions to a typical surveillance radar. The results show that for the case considered, the binary Hough integrator improves the power budget of the radar by about 3 dB for a nonfluctuating target and 1 dB for a highly fluctuating target |
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