Analysis of linear weighted order statistics CFAR algorithm

CFAR technique is widely used in radar targets detection fields. Traditional algorithm is cell averaging (CA), which can give a good detection performance in a relatively ideal environment. Recently, censoring technique is adopted to make the detector perform robustly. Ordered statistic (OS) and trimmed mean (TM) methods are proposed. TM methods treat the reference samples which participate in clutter power estimates equally, but this processing will not realize the effective estimates of clutter power. Therefore, in this paper a quasi best weighted (QBW) order statistics algorithm is presented. In special cases, QBW reduces to CA and the censored mean level detector (CMLD).