A New Two-Stage Tunable Space-Time Adaptive Detector

Abstract

In order to improve the rejection capability of mismatched interferer signals, a new two-stage detector is proposed under homogeneous scenarios with unknown covariance matrix, which is obtained by cascading the adaptive matched filter (AMF) detector and the enhanced RAO (EnRAO) detector. The new detector has constant false alarm performance, and the closed-form expression of probability of false alarm and probability of detection is derived. The performance of the new detector is assessed, and analyzed in comparison with other detectors. The results show that, the proposed detector can provide enhanced rejection capability in the case of mismatch, but the performance of the detector is slightly lost under the condition of matching.

Keywords

adaptive detection / constant false alarm rate (CFAR) / two-stage tunable / adaptive matched filter (AMF) / enhanced RAO (EnRAO)