Adaptive detectors with enhanced selectivity capabilities in partially homogeneous environments

Abstract

This study deals with the problem of adaptive detection in the presence of mismatch signals in partially homogeneous environment. To enhance the selectivity of the detector, the authors add a fictitious signal under the null hypothesis. The fictitious signal is orthogonal to the nominal signal steering vector in the quasi-whitened observation space. Two generalised likelihood ratio test-based mismatch selective detectors are derived. Simulation results show that the one-step mismatch selective detector coincides with the adaptive coherence estimator and the two-step mismatch selective detector has a better mismatch rejection capability than the generalised adaptive matched filter.