Talk:Constant false alarm rate

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I have to disagree with the statement in the first sentence of this page that CFAR detectors are adaptive. There are, of course, adaptive CFAR detectors (possibly the original CFAR detectors). However, I have two signal processing texts that discuss non-adaptive CFAR detection algorithms (one by Steven Kay, the other by Louis Scharf). I suggest the introduction be re-worded to note that not all CFAR detectors are adaptive. Steve8675309 23:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Only RADAR?

I'm disappointed this is the only page that discusses CFAR. It is so narrowly focused on RADAR applications. CFAR is a general approach for finding the threshold for a wide variety of detection algorithm. The only prerequisite is one must understand how the detection function behaves under the noise-only null hypothesis and be able to calculate the threshold which would achieve some desired tail probability: the false alarm rate. --Mborg (talk) 18:20, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]