Particle-based track-before-detect in Rayleigh noise

Mark G. Rutten; Neil J. Gordon; Simon Maskell

doi:10.1117/12.541275

25 August 2004 Particle-based track-before-detect in Rayleigh noise

Mark G. Rutten, Neil J. Gordon, Simon Maskell

Proceedings Volume 5428, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2004; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.541275
Event: Defense and Security, 2004, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Track-before-detect (TBD) refers to a tracking scheme where detection of a target is not made by placing a threshold on the sensor data. Rather, the complete sensor data is used to detect and track a target in the absence of a data threshold. By using all of the sensor data a TBD algorithm can detect and track targets which have a lower signal power than could be detected by using a standard detection and tracking scheme. This paper presents an efficient particle filter TBD algorithm, which models the signal processing stages which may be found in a sensor such as radar. In this type of sensor the noise is modelled as the magnitude of a complex Gaussian process, which is Rayleigh distributed. This noise model and the model of the sensor signal processing is incorporated into the filter derivation. It is shown that in a simple simulation the algorithm can detect and track targets with a signal-to-noise ratio as low as 3dB.

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Mark G. Rutten, Neil J. Gordon, and Simon Maskell "Particle-based track-before-detect in Rayleigh noise", Proc. SPIE 5428, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2004, (25 August 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.541275

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