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The performance of the energy detector is evaluated using ambient noise data from several ocean acoustic environments. Estimates of the false alarm probability are presented as a function of the detection threshold for each environment. Estimated values for the corresponding minimum detectable signal-to-noise ratio (MDS) are also given for an artifically generated white Gaussian signal. The results presented here indicate that non-Gaussian noise statistics can have a significant impact on the relationship between the false alarm probability and the detection threshold. This threshold adjustment results in a serious degradation of energy detector performance in terms of the MDS for some non-Gaussian noise environments.
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Machell, F.W., Penrod, C.S. (1989). Energy Detection in the Ocean Acoustic Environment. In: Wegman, E.J., Schwartz, S.C., Thomas, J.B. (eds) Topics in Non-Gaussian Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8859-3_15
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