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Weak Signal Detection in Non-Gaussian Noise of Unknown Level
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Weak Signal Detection in Non-Gaussian Noise of Unknown Level

Ning Hsing Lu and Bruce A Eisenstein
IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems, v AES-20(6), pp 830-834
Nov 1984

Abstract

Adaptive signal detection Detectors Gaussian noise Noise level Signal detection Signal processing Stability Statistical analysis Testing Working environment noise
An adaptive threshold detector to test for the presence of a weak signal in additive non-Gaussian noise of unknown level is discussed. The detector consists of a locally optimum detector, a noise level estimator, and a decision device. The detection threshold is made adaptive according to the information provided by the noise level estimator in order to keep a fixed false-alarm probability. Asymptotic performance characteristics are obtained indicating relationships among the basic system parameters such as the reference noise sample size and the underlying noise statistics. It is shown that, as the reference noise sample size is made sufficiently large, the adaptive threshold detector attains the performance of a corresponding locally optimum detector for detecting the weak signal were the noise level known.

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