Analysis of CFAR detection with multiple pulses transmission case in Pareto distributed clutter

In this work, we extend the performance analysis of some single-pulse transmission signal processors that produce CFAR under the assumption of Pareto distributed clutter for more realistic approach where non coherent integrated pulses are transmitted. A logarithmic transformation approach, that enables true Gaussian CFAR processes to be translated for target detection in Pareto clutter scenario, is used. Consequently, the resulting CFAR processes depend all explicitly on the Pareto scale parameter. Thus, it will be assumed that this parameter is fully known. In the case of multi looks case, analytic expressions for the false alarm probability of the Geometric Mean (GM)-, Greatest Of (GO)- and Smallest Of (SO)-CFAR schemes are derived. Through simulated data, we evaluate the superiority of these developed CFAR detectors against the existing single-pulse CFAR detectors.