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  • Radar signal processing
  • Aerospace engineering
  • Signal detection theory

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  • Low-flying helicopters require real-time environmental sensing for safety.
  • Nonhomogeneous clutter, like multiple targets or clutter edges, degrades radar detection performance.
  • Existing Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) detectors struggle in such challenging environments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an improved automatic CFAR detector for enhanced radar signal detection.
  • To address the limitations of current detectors in nonhomogeneous clutter environments.
  • To enhance the safety of low-flying helicopters through robust radar performance.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed a novel automatic censored cell averaging CFAR detector.
  • Utilized a hypothesis test on the first-order difference (FOD) of ordered data to identify and reject unwanted clutter samples.
  • Estimated background power using censored reference window samples without prior environmental knowledge.

Main Results:

  • The proposed FOD-CFAR detector demonstrated low loss performance in homogeneous clutter.
  • The detector exhibited robust performance in nonhomogeneous environments, including multiple targets and clutter edges.
  • Simulation results validated the detector's effectiveness.

Conclusions:

  • The FOD-CFAR detector significantly improves radar signal detection in nonhomogeneous clutter.
  • The method offers a practical solution for enhancing low-flying helicopter safety.
  • Measured results from a helicopter confirmed the proposed method's performance.