The theoretical statistical model of sea clutter is a key issue for maritime surveillance. In recent years, the statistical model of sea clutter has attracted much attention to design the detector well. Meanwhile, the...The theoretical statistical model of sea clutter is a key issue for maritime surveillance. In recent years, the statistical model of sea clutter has attracted much attention to design the detector well. Meanwhile, the circular scanning synthetic aperture radar(SAR) has been applied to wide surveillance of the sea surface.Therefore, the paper analyzes the validity of available sea clutter models for range Doppler images from different scan angles for moderate sea state in the medium grazing angle. The parameter estimation method for different distribution models employs the method of logarithmic cumulant(MoLC) based on Mellin transform uniformly. By the analysis of the fitting performance between the histogram of real data and the amplitude probability density function(PDF) of empirical distribution models and the goodness-of-fit(GoF) test for real data from different scan angles, it is indicated the generalized K(GK) distribution with generalized Gamma texture distribution can fit the sea clutter well for different scan angles in the medium grazing angle.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61621005 61671352)+2 种基金the Key Laboratory of Cognitive Radio and Information Processing,Ministry of Education(Guilin University of Electronic Technology)(CRKL160206)the Innovational Foundation of Shanghai Academy of Space Technology(SAST2016027SAST2016033)
文摘The theoretical statistical model of sea clutter is a key issue for maritime surveillance. In recent years, the statistical model of sea clutter has attracted much attention to design the detector well. Meanwhile, the circular scanning synthetic aperture radar(SAR) has been applied to wide surveillance of the sea surface.Therefore, the paper analyzes the validity of available sea clutter models for range Doppler images from different scan angles for moderate sea state in the medium grazing angle. The parameter estimation method for different distribution models employs the method of logarithmic cumulant(MoLC) based on Mellin transform uniformly. By the analysis of the fitting performance between the histogram of real data and the amplitude probability density function(PDF) of empirical distribution models and the goodness-of-fit(GoF) test for real data from different scan angles, it is indicated the generalized K(GK) distribution with generalized Gamma texture distribution can fit the sea clutter well for different scan angles in the medium grazing angle.