Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 56, Issue 3, Pages 1444-1453Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2763089
Keywords
Radar detection; radar signal analysis; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
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The commonly applied K-distribution to model the synthetic aperture radar image amplitude of the heterogeneous (non-Gaussian) sea surface as the basis for vessel detection has shown deficiencies in practical cases, particularly for space-based systems. Due to a deviation between the K-probability density function and measured histograms in the tails, even the inclusion of thermal noise is oftentimes not sufficient to cover the range of environments that are expected. As a consequence, virtually all detectors try to reduce the large number of obtained false detections by relying on rather heuristic postprocessing steps. Consequently, they forfeit the crucial property of a constant false alarm rate. This paper proposes a novel statistical sea clutter model that describes the data more accurately, especially in challenging environments and thermal-noise limited cases. This new model stands out through its numerical simplicity, permitting efficient parameter adaptation thereby enhancing robustness and reducing computational complexity. Accordingly, the presented sea data model has the potential to replace the widely adopted K-distribution as model of choice for future operational applications.
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