Novel Parameter Estimation and Radar Detection Approaches for Multiple Point-Like Targets: Designs and Comparisons

In this work, we develop and compare two innovative strategies for parameter estimation and radar detection of multiple point-like targets. The first strategy, which appears here for the first time, jointly exploits the maximum likelihood approach and Bayesian learning to estimate targets’ parameters including their positions in terms of range bins. The second strategy relies on the intuition that for high signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio values, the energy of data containing target components projected onto the nominal steering direction should be higher than the energy of data affected by interference only. The adaptivity with respect to the interference covariance matrix is also considered exploiting a training data set collected in the proximity of the window under test. Finally, another important innovation aspect concerns the adaptive estimation of the unknown number of targets by means of the model order selection rules.

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