Management of interference in Pareto CFAR processes using adaptive test cell analysis

Designing a constant false alarm rate detector to manage successfully interfering targets and clutter transitions has presented researchers with some serious design challenges. One approach has been the application of test cell analysis, using a switching detection mechanism. Such a process has resulted in detector performance improvement in a number of clutter model scenarios. Here a switching based detector is developed for targets embedded within Pareto distributed clutter. It is shown that this new detector can rectify many of the performance issues of detectors introduced recently for target detection in such a clutter environment. Crown Copyright (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.