Journal
SIGNAL PROCESSING
Volume 217, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2023.109326
Keywords
Sea clutter; SIRV model with block tridiagonal speckle; matrix; Small target detection; Long-time adaptive GLRT-LTD
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This paper proposes a method for low-velocity small target detection in maritime surveillance radars. It models sea clutter sequences using the spherical invariant random vector (SIRV) model with block tridiagonal speckle covariance matrix and inverse Gamma distributed texture. The proposed detector, which is a long-time adaptive generalized likelihood ratio test with linear threshold detector (GLRT-LTD), shows competitive detection performance in experiments.
Low-velocity small target detection in maritime surveillance radars is always a challenging task. Low signal-toclutter ratio requires long-time coherent integration to obtain enough gain of target returns. However, long-time coherent integration encounters insufficient secondary data due to the spatial inhomogeneity of sea clutter. In this paper, considering the decorrelation time of speckle component of sea clutter short up to a dozen of milliseconds, the spherical invariant random vector (SIRV) model with block tridiagonal speckle covariance matrix and the inverse Gamma distributed texture is proposed to model sea clutter sequences in several tenths of a second. In this model, a long-time adaptive generalized likelihood ratio test with linear threshold detector (GLRT-LTD) is constructed. Owing to the block tridiagonal structure of speckle covariance matrices, the adaptive detection requires much less reference cells for speckle covariance matrix estimation and much lower computational cost for its inversion. The proposed detector is verified by an X-band high-resolution island-based radar data with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as test target. The experimental result shows that it obtains competitive detection performance in comparison with the state-of-the-art detectors.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available