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A Study of Efficient CFAR Algorithm

효율적인 CFAR 알고리듬 연구

  • Shin, Sang-Jin (Technical Support Center for National Defense Industry of Agency for Defense Development)
  • 신상진 (방위산업기술지원센터(국방과학연구소 부설))
  • Received : 2014.04.07
  • Accepted : 2014.08.18
  • Published : 2014.08.31
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Abstract

This paper proposes a new efficient CFAR algorithm. The structure of the proposed CFAR is relatively simple as compared with the OS-CFAR or ML-CFAR which are considered to deal with the nonhomogeneous environment such as clutter and multiple targets. The proposed algorithm is effectively applied to the radar signal processor with reduced computation burden. The relationship between the threshold and PFA of the proposed CFAR is derived analytically. The CFAR loss of the proposed CFAR algorithm is compared with CA-CFAR and OS-CFAR based on both SNR and ADT(Average Detection Threshold).

본 논문에서는 CA-CFAR 알고리듬을 보완한 효율적인 CFAR 알고리듬을 제시한다. 레이더 수신기에 유입되는 신호는 열잡음뿐만 아니라, 클러터 및 다중표적 신호가 존재하며, 시스템 내부에서 발진되는 하모닉 성분도 존재하여 기존에 널리 알려진 CA-CFAR로는 표적 탐지 성능을 보장할 수 없다. 이를 보완하기 위한 OS-CFAR나 ML-CFAR 등이 연구되었지만, 제시하는 CFAR 알고리듬은 OS-CFAR나 ML-CFAR에 비해 적은 계산량으로 레이더 신호처리기에 적용시킬 수 있다. 제시하는 CFAR 알고리듬의 문턱치와 오경보율의 관계식을 유도하고, SNR 관점과 ADT 관점에서 CFAR 손실을 분석하였다.

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