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In the presence of Weibull clutter, the development of sliding window detection processes, based on scale and power invariant distributions, has been extensively examined. This involves the selection of two functions labeled as scale-invariant and secondary CRP (clutter range profile) functions. However, due to the presence of outliers, existing CFAR (constant false alarm rate) algorithms show remarkable CFAR losses. We resort in this work to the practice of a suitable choice of these two functions in order to have a new decision rule with immunity against interfering targets. To do this, a quadruple-order statistics-based CFAR detection algorithm with different four-order statistics are proposed in the presence of log-normal and Weibull clutter disturbances. Via Monte Carlo simulations, the analysis of the false alarm regulation of the proposed detector is studied showing its robustness with respect to clutter parameters. Moreover, for comparison purposes with existing CFAR algorithms, simulated results indicate that lowest CFAR losses can be obtained by the proposed quadruple-order statistics named WHWH-CFAR (Weber–Haykin-Weber–Haykin) in the presence of strong interfering targets. IPIX real data are also performed to test the validity of the proposed detector.
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Zebiri, K., Mezache, A. Radar CFAR detection for multiple-targets situations for Weibull and log-normal distributed clutter. SIViP 15, 1671–1678 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-021-01905-6
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