Patent ID: 8334803

Claim:
A method for determining target echo detection efficacy of a signal processing algorithm of a radar system comprising: generating, in a signal processor, a simulated noise complex envelope sequence; generating a simulated radar target echo signal complex envelope pulse sequence, wherein generating the simulated radar target echo signal complex envelope sequence comprises the steps of: generating a sequence of uncorrelated complex envelope values; multiplying the generated sequence of uncorrelated complex envelope values by a transformation matrix, the transformation matrix being based on an autocorrelation function of a fluctuating target process; adding a mean value vector to the product of the sequence of uncorrelated complex envelope values and the transformation matrix, to calculate an output vector containing the simulated radar target echo signal complex envelope sequence; adding the simulated noise complex envelope sequence to the simulated radar target echo signal complex envelope pulse sequence, thereby producing simulated noisy radar target echo signal complex envelope sequence; inputting the simulated noisy radar target echo signal complex envelope sequence into the signal processing algorithm; and analyzing the signal processing algorithm's output to determine target echo detection efficacy of the signal processing algorithm.