Designing Conservative Sensor Detection Systems With Emitter Location Uncertainty
Benedito J. B. Fonseca · IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems · 2017
The design of sensor systems to detect an emitter at a random location with an unknown distribution is difficult because measurements are conditionally dependent and the hypothesis test is composite. This paper shows that, when sensors are at deterministic locations, these problems can be circumvented and a conservative design is achieved by adopting a least favorable distribution for the emitter location. An algorithm to achieve the design and the application to generalized likelihood ratio test detectors are presented.