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This paper addresses adaptive detection of range-spread target in spherically invariant random vector clutter. Based on the nonadaptive detectors of NSDD-GLRT and SDD-GLRT, two adaptive detectors named ANSDD-GLRT and ASDD-GLRT are devised by replacing the unknown normalized clutter covariance matrix with the sample covariance matrix based on the secondary data. The formulas of detection probability and false alarm probability are deduced. Moreover, the constant false alarm rate properties of both adaptive detectors are assessed and the influence of mismatched steering vector on detection probability is analyzed. The experimental results show that the adaptive detectors have an acceptable loss with respect to the nonadaptive counterparts. Furthermore, the ANSDD-GLRT converges much faster than the ASDD-GLRT, however, the latter rejects the misaligned signals more effectively. Both detectors perform well for the uniformly-distributed-energy target, but degenerate for the fluctuating targets. In addition, the correlation between target scatterers results in an additional gain for low signal-to-clutter power ratio.
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He, Y., Jian, T., Su, F. et al. Two adaptive detectors for range-spread targets in non-Gaussian clutter. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 54, 386–395 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-010-4164-9
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