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Known Source Detection Predictions For Higher Order Correlators, Lisa A. Pflug, George E. Ioup, Juliette W. Ioup
Known Source Detection Predictions For Higher Order Correlators, Lisa A. Pflug, George E. Ioup, Juliette W. Ioup
Physics Faculty Publications
The problem addressed in this paper is whether higher order correlation detectors can perform better in white noise than the cross correlation detector for the detection of a known transient source signal, if additional receiver information is included in the higher order correlations. While the cross correlation is the optimal linear detector for white noise, additional receiver information in the higher order correlations makes them nonlinear. In this paper, formulas that predict the performance of higher order correlation detectors of energy signals are derived for a known source signal. Given the first through fourth order signal moments and the noise …