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Adaptive Thresholding and Automatic Detection

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Principles of Modern Radar

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The requirement for radar systems that can detect the presence of targets within background environments that are more complex and less known than thermal noise and maintain a controlled false alarm rate leads to increased emphasis on adaptive threshold automatic detection circuits. Systems that use automatic detection circuits to maintain, ideally, a constant false alarm rate by generating estimates of the receiver output when targets (of interest) are not present are called constant false alarm rate (CFAR) systems.

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Jerry L. Eaves Edward K. Reedy

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Barrett, C.R. (1987). Adaptive Thresholding and Automatic Detection. In: Eaves, J.L., Reedy, E.K. (eds) Principles of Modern Radar. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1971-9_12

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