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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,472 Views
16 Pages

20 February 2021

A generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) with the constant false alarm rate (CFAR) property was recently developed for adaptive detection of moving targets in focusing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. However, in the multichannel SAR-ground m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,042 Views
16 Pages

Imbalance Fault Detection of Marine Current Turbine Based on GLRT Detector

  • Milu Zhang,
  • Jutao Chen,
  • Liu Yang and
  • Christophe Claramunt

31 January 2025

Marine Current Turbines (MCTs) play a critical role in converting the kinetic energy of water into electricity. However, due to the influence of marine organisms, marine current equipment often experiences imbalance faults. Additionally, affected by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,384 Views
23 Pages

17 August 2019

The application of SAR tomography (TomoSAR) on the urban infrastructure and other man-made buildings has gained increasing popularity with the development of modern high-resolution spaceborne satellites. Urban tomography focuses on the separation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,373 Views
14 Pages

Research on a Service Load Prediction Method Based on VMD-GLRT

  • Jin Zhang,
  • Yiqi Huang,
  • Yu Pi,
  • Cheng Sun,
  • Wangyang Cai and
  • Yuanyuan Huang

5 March 2023

In this paper, a deep learning-based prediction model VMD-GLRT is proposed to address the accuracy problem of service load prediction. The VMD-GLRT model combines Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) and GRU-LSTM. At the same time, the model incorpor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,499 Views
21 Pages

Extension of a Fast GLRT Algorithm to 5D SAR Tomography of Urban Areas

  • Alessandra Budillon,
  • Angel Caroline Johnsy and
  • Gilda Schirinzi

14 August 2017

This paper analyzes a method for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Tomographic (TomoSAR) imaging, allowing the detection of multiple scatterers that can exhibit time deformation and thermal dilation by using a CFAR (Constant False Alarm Rate) approach....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,556 Views
19 Pages

Phase-Based GLRT Detection of Moving Targets with Pixel Tracking in Low-Resolution SAR Image Sequences

  • Yulun Li,
  • Chunsheng Li,
  • Xiaodong Peng,
  • Shuo Li,
  • Hongcheng Zeng and
  • Wei Yang

26 September 2021

Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can provide ground area monitoring with large coverage. However, achieving a wide observation scope comes at the cost of resolution reduction owing to the trade-off between these parameters in conventional SA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,704 Views
18 Pages

25 August 2018

This paper considers the active detection of a stealth target with aspect dependent reflection (e.g., submarine, aircraft, etc.) using wireless sensor networks (WSNs). When the target is detected, its localization is also of interest. Due to stringen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,104 Views
19 Pages

Multiantenna-Cognitive-Radio-Based Blind Spectrum Sensing under Correlated Signals and Unequal Signal and Noise Powers

  • Lucas dos Santos Costa,
  • Fátima Sayury Queralt Queda Alves and
  • Rausley Adriano Amaral de Souza

Adopting cognitive radios (CRs) having multiple antennas in blind non-cooperative and cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) under fading channels has gained attention due to higher detection performances provided by the spatial diversity gain of multi-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
863 Views
20 Pages

Beyond the Grid: GLRT-Based TomoSAR Fast Detection for Retrieving Height and Thermal Dilation

  • Nabil Haddad,
  • Karima Hadj-Rabah,
  • Alessandra Budillon and
  • Gilda Schirinzi

8 July 2025

The Tomographic Synthetic Aperture Radar (TomoSAR) technique is widely used for monitoring urban infrastructures, as it enables the mapping of individual scatterers across additional dimensions such as height (3D), thermal dilation (4D), and deformat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,920 Views
14 Pages

Kronecker-Based Fusion Rule for Cooperative Spectrum Sensingwith Multi-Antenna Receivers

  • Sadiq Ali,
  • Magnus Jansson,
  • Gonzalo Seco-Granados and
  • José A. López-Salcedo

10 December 2014

This paper considers a novel fusion rule for spectrum sensing scheme for a cognitive radio network with multi-antenna receivers. The proposed scheme exploits the fact that when any primary signal is present, measurements are spatially correlated due...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,199 Views
14 Pages

At present, there are many technical methods in the field of target detection, but the detection methods are greatly affected by direct-path signals and need technical support such as extracting pure direct-path signals, so they cannot be used under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,742 Views
18 Pages

Adaptive Waveform Design with Multipath Exploitation Radar in Heterogeneous Environments

  • Seden Hazal Gulen Yilmaz,
  • Chiara Zarro,
  • Harun Taha Hayvaci and
  • Silvia Liberata Ullo

21 April 2021

The problem of detecting point like targets over a glistening surface is investigated in this manuscript, and the design of an optimal waveform through a two-step process for a multipath exploitation radar is proposed. In the first step, a non-adapti...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,156 Views
13 Pages

Bayesian Adaptive Detection for Distributed MIMO Radar with Insufficient Training Data

  • Hongli Li,
  • Ming Liu,
  • Chunhe Chang,
  • Binbin Li,
  • Bilei Zhou,
  • Hao Chen and
  • Weijian Liu

The distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar observes targets from different angles, which can overcome the adverse effects of target glint and avoid the situation where the target’s tangential flight cannot be effectively detect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
383 Views
25 Pages

SP-LiDAR for Fast and Robust Depth Imaging at Low SBR and Few Photons

  • Kehao Chi,
  • Xialin Liu,
  • Ruikai Xue and
  • Genghua Huang

12 December 2025

Single photon LiDAR has demonstrated remarkable proficiency in long-range sensing under conditions of weak returns. However, in the few-photon regime (SPPP ≈ 1) and at low signal-to-background ratios (SBR ≤ 0.1), depth estimation is subject...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,657 Views
24 Pages

Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Using Eigenvalue Fusion for OFDMA and Other Wideband Signals

  • Dayan A. Guimarães,
  • Carlos R. N. Da Silva and
  • Rausley A. A. De Souza

In this paper, we propose a new approach for the detection of OFDMA and other wideband signals in the context of centralized cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive radio (CR) applications. The approach is based on the eigenvalues of the received...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,255 Views
22 Pages

Research on 4-D Imaging of Holographic SAR Differential Tomography

  • Shuang Jin,
  • Hui Bi,
  • Jing Feng,
  • Weihao Xu,
  • Jin Xu and
  • Jingjing Zhang

6 July 2023

Holographic synthetic aperture radar tomography (HoloSAR) combines circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) and SAR tomography (TomoSAR) to enable a 360° azimuth observation of the considered scene. This imaging mode achieves a high-resolution th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,387 Views
43 Pages

Distance Measures of Polarimetric SAR Image Data: A Survey

  • Xianxiang Qin,
  • Yanning Zhang,
  • Ying Li,
  • Yinglei Cheng,
  • Wangsheng Yu,
  • Peng Wang and
  • Huanxin Zou

19 November 2022

Distance measure plays a critical role in various applications of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image data. In recent decades, plenty of distance measures have been developed for PolSAR image data from different perspectives, which,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,465 Views
18 Pages

2 August 2024

This paper addresses polarimetric adaptive coherent detection of radar targets embedded in sea clutter. Initially, radar clutter data across multiple polarimetric channels is modeled using a compound Gaussian framework featuring an unspecified speckl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,635 Views
18 Pages

Millimeter Wave (mmWave) communication is considered as an enabling technology for the next generation of cellular networks because it offers much larger bandwidth and higher data rate than the current lower-frequency cellular systems to satisfy the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,899 Views
16 Pages

Eigenvalue-Based Spectrum Sensing with Small Samples Using Circulant Matrix

  • Liping Du,
  • Yuting Fu,
  • Yueyun Chen,
  • Xiaojian Wang and
  • Xiaoyan Zhang

5 December 2021

In cognitive radio (CR) networks, eigenvalue-based detectors (EBDs) have attracted much attention due to their good performance of detecting secondary users (SUs). In order to further improve the detection performance of EBDs with short samples, we p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,556 Views
18 Pages

Polarization Optimization for the Detection of Multiple Persistent Scatterers Using SAR Tomography

  • Hossein Aghababaei,
  • Giampaolo Ferraioli,
  • Alfred Stein and
  • Luis Gómez Déniz

19 April 2022

The detection of multiple interfering persistent scatterers (PSs) using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) tomography is an efficient tool for generating point clouds of urban areas. In this context, detection methods based upon the polarization informat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,565 Views
24 Pages

30 September 2020

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography has shown great potential in multi-dimensional monitoring of urban infrastructures and detection of their possible slow deformations. Along this line, undeniable improvements in SAR tomography (TomoSAR) detec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,671 Views
17 Pages

8 February 2024

Spoofing against the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is an attack with strong concealment, posing a significant threat to the security of the GNSS. Many strategies have been developed to prevent such attacks, but current detection methods b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,407 Views
22 Pages

Gridless DOA Estimation with Extended Array Aperture in Automotive Radar Applications

  • Pengyu Jiang,
  • Silin Gao,
  • Jie Zhao,
  • Zhe Zhang and
  • Bingchen Zhang

26 December 2024

Millimeter-wave automotive radar has become an essential tool for autonomous driving, providing reliable sensing capabilities under various environmental conditions. To reduce hardware size and cost, sparse arrays are widely employed in automotive ra...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,061 Views
13 Pages

The Geometry of Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test

  • Yongqiang Cheng,
  • Hongqiang Wang and
  • Xiang Li

6 December 2022

The generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) for composite hypothesis testing problems is studied from a geometric perspective. An information-geometrical interpretation of the GLRT is proposed based on the geometry of curved exponential families. Tw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,038 Views
20 Pages

Passive MIMO Radar Detection with Unknown Colored Gaussian Noise

  • Yongjun Liu,
  • Guisheng Liao,
  • Haichuan Li,
  • Shengqi Zhu,
  • Yachao Li and
  • Yingzeng Yin

9 July 2021

The target detection of the passive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar that is comprised of multiple illuminators of opportunity and multiple receivers is investigated in this paper. In the passive MIMO radar, the transmitted signals of illu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,651 Views
17 Pages

9 April 2024

Polarization diversity has been widely used in maritime radars to improve target detection performance. Full utilization of the polarimetric characteristics of sea clutter is the key to designing effective polarimetric detectors. For high-resolution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,052 Views
15 Pages

Detection of Unresolved Targets for Wideband Monopulse Radar

  • Tianyi Tsai,
  • Zhiqiang Liao,
  • Zhiquan Ding,
  • Yuan Zhao and
  • Bin Tang

3 March 2019

Detecting unresolved targets is very important for radars in their target tracking phase. For wideband radars, the unresolved target detection algorithm should be fast and adaptive to different bandwidths. To meet the requirements, a detection algori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,810 Views
11 Pages

11 August 2015

We examine a distributed detection problem in a wireless sensor network, where sensor nodes collaborate to detect a Gaussian signal with an unknown change of power, i.e., a scale parameter. Due to power/bandwidth constraints, we consider the case whe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Views
22 Pages

20 January 2026

This paper proposes a wavefront-based method for detecting and locating single-line-to-ground faults in distribution lines using only the transient waveform recorded at one line terminal. The measured current is transformed into a time–frequenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,885 Views
18 Pages

25 November 2017

In this paper, we investigate a low probability of intercept (LPI)-based optimal power allocation strategy for a joint bistatic radar and communication system, which is composed of a dedicated transmitter, a radar receiver, and a communication receiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,782 Views
23 Pages

Doppler-Spread Space Target Detection Based on Overlapping Group Shrinkage and Order Statistics

  • Linsheng Bu,
  • Tuo Fu,
  • Defeng Chen,
  • Huawei Cao,
  • Shuo Zhang and
  • Jialiang Han

13 September 2024

The Doppler-spread problem is commonly encountered in space target observation scenarios using ground-based radar when prolonged coherent integration techniques are utilized. Even when the translational motion is accurately compensated, the phase res...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,894 Views
11 Pages

Distributed Target Detection in Unknown Interference

  • Kaiming Xu,
  • Yunkai Deng and
  • Zhongjun Yu

22 March 2022

Interference can degrade the detection performance of a radar system. To overcome the difficulty of target detection in unknown interference, in this paper we model the interference belonging to a subspace orthogonal to the signal subspace. We design...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,056 Views
19 Pages

Design of Selective Detector for Distributed Targets Through Stochastic Characteristic of the Fictitious Signal

  • Gaoqing Xiong,
  • Hui Cao,
  • Weijian Liu,
  • Jialiang Zhang,
  • Kehao Wang and
  • Kai Yan

25 January 2025

We investigate the problem of detecting the distributed targets buried in the Gaussian noise whose covariance matrix is unknown when signal mismatch occurs. The idea is to add a fictitious signal under the null hypothesis of the origin detection prob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,543 Views
18 Pages

8 July 2024

Multichannel radars generally need to utilize a certain amount of training samples to estimate the covariance matrix of clutter for target detection. Due to factors such as severe terrain fluctuations and complex electromagnetic environments, the tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,334 Views
24 Pages

In this paper we present a unified comparison of the performance of four detection techniques for centralized data-fusion cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks under impulsive noise, namely, the eigenvalue-based generalized likelih...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,415 Views
16 Pages

19 May 2021

Human presence detection is an application that has a growing need in many industries. Hotel room occupancy is critical for electricity and energy conservation. Industrial factories and plants have the same need to know the occupancy status to regula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,065 Views
26 Pages

5 March 2025

In this article, the problem of Bayesian detecting rank-one distributed targets under subspace interference and compound Gaussian clutter with inverse Gaussian texture is investigated. Due to the clutter heterogeneity, the training data may be insuff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,043 Views
29 Pages

Decomposing and Modeling Acoustic Signals to Identify Machinery Defects in Industrial Soundscapes

  • Christof Pichler,
  • Markus Neumayer,
  • Bernhard Schweighofer,
  • Christoph Feilmayr,
  • Stefan Schuster and
  • Hannes Wegleiter

9 August 2025

Acoustic sound-based condition monitoring (ASCM) systems, which typically utilize machine learning algorithms on established audio features, have demonstrated effectiveness under controlled conditions. However, their application in real-world industr...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,226 Views
14 Pages

Urban Tomographic Imaging Using Polarimetric SAR Data

  • Alessandra Budillon,
  • Angel Caroline Johnsy and
  • Gilda Schirinzi

11 January 2019

In this paper, we investigate the potential of polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) tomography (Pol-TomoSAR) in urban applications. TomoSAR exploits the amplitude and phase of the received data and offers the possibility to resolve multiple sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,262 Views
27 Pages

Detection of DoS Attacks Using ARFIMA Modeling of GOOSE Communication in IEC 61850 Substations

  • Ghada Elbez,
  • Hubert B. Keller,
  • Atul Bohara,
  • Klara Nahrstedt and
  • Veit Hagenmeyer

5 October 2020

Integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in modern smart grids (SGs) offers many advantages including the use of renewables and an effective way to protect, control and monitor the energy transmission and distribution. To reach a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,212 Views
21 Pages

Moving-Target Detection for FDA-MIMO Radar in Partially Homogeneous Environments

  • Changshan He,
  • Running Zhang,
  • Bang Huang,
  • Mingming Xu,
  • Zhibin Wang,
  • Lei Liu,
  • Zheng Lu and
  • Ye Jin

23 February 2024

This paper delves into the problem of moving-target detection in partially homogeneous environments (PHE) with unknown Gaussian disturbance using a frequency diverse array multiple-input multiple-output (FDA-MIMO) radar. Using training data, we have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,741 Views
14 Pages

11 January 2017

A broadband signal model is proposed for a distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) sonar system consisting of two transmitters and a receiving linear array. Transmitters are widely separated to illuminate the different aspects of an extende...

  • Article
  • Open Access
410 Views
13 Pages

22 October 2025

Given the characteristics of underwater electromagnetic detection systems, starting from typical applications, this paper analyzes the impact of random variables on the optimal receiver. The mathematical expression of the optimal receiver is derived...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,012 Views
18 Pages

16 June 2022

A single-beam radar system cannot adopt a side-looking installation scheme, which is completely perpendicular to the moving direction of the target in an intelligent transportation system (ITS), because of its own limitations. In this paper, a side-l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,081 Views
28 Pages

Performance Analysis of OCDM in ISAC Scenario

  • Pengfei Xu,
  • Mao Li,
  • Tao Zhan,
  • Fengkui Gong,
  • Yue Xiao and
  • Xia Lei

3 September 2025

The rapid evolution of communication systems, exemplified by the Internet of Things (IoT), demands increasingly stringent reliability in both communication and sensing. While Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) struggles to meet the cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,036 Views
19 Pages

Robust Spectrum Sensing Detector Based on MIMO Cognitive Radios with Non-Perfect Channel Gain

  • Muthana Al-Amidie,
  • Ahmed Al-Asadi,
  • Amjad J. Humaidi,
  • Ayad Al-Dujaili,
  • Laith Alzubaidi,
  • Laith Farhan,
  • Mohammed A. Fadhel,
  • Ronald G. McGarvey and
  • Naz E. Islam

24 February 2021

The spectrum has increasingly become occupied by various wireless technologies. For this reason, the spectrum has become a scarce resource. In prior work, the authors have addressed the spectrum sensing problem by using multi-input and multi-output (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,559 Views
21 Pages

30 June 2017

Spoofing attacks are threatening the global navigation satellite system (GNSS). The maximum likelihood estimation (MLE)-based positioning technique is a direct positioning method originally developed for multipath rejection and weak signal processing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,337 Views
15 Pages

Distributed Radar Target Detection Based on RF-SSA in Non-Gaussian Noise

  • Jiayun Chang,
  • Xiongjun Fu,
  • Congxia Zhao,
  • Ping Lang and
  • Cheng Feng

Distributed radar target detection in non-Gaussian noise, modeled as the sum of K-distributed clutter plus thermal noise, is considered in this paper. The conventional target techniques, e.g., constant false-alarm rate (CFAR), scatterer density-depen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,456 Views
20 Pages

14 August 2022

Multi-circular SAR(MCSAR) can obtain holographic three-dimensional (3D) images of interesting observation targets, which is a significant research field at present. For anisotropic scatterers, the multi-circular SAR incoherent 3D imaging strategy com...

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