Accession Number:

AD0626162

Title:

CANONICALLY OPTIMUM THRESHOLD DETECTION,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• Middleton,David

Report Date:

1965-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

87.0

Abstract:

Systematic methods are developed for determining best approximations to the theoretically ideal, optimum detector for signals in noise. The methods provide, for the first time, a basis for design approximations, and a means for comparing and evaluating actual systems with their ideal counterparts. Emphasis is on providing explicit detector structures and showing how, and to what degree, such structures yield optimum or nearoptimum results. Applications to radar, sonar, seismology, or any other signal detection in noise, are immediate. Author

Descriptors:

• *SIGNALS
• *COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
• OPTIMIZATION
• INFORMATION THEORY
• DECISION THEORY
• RADAR RECEIVERS
• SONAR RECEIVERS
• SEISMOMETERS
• RADAR SIGNALS
• SONAR SIGNALS
• NOISE(RADAR)
• DEMODULATION

Subject Categories:

• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE