Weibull radar clutter

✍ Scribed by Matsuo Sekine

• Publisher: P. Peregrinus Ltd. on behalf of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 212
• Series: IEE radar, sonar, navigation, and avionics series 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The material presented in this book is intended to provide the reader with a practical treatment of Weibull distribution as applied to radar systems. Topics include general derivation of Weibull distribution, measurements of Weibull-distribution clutter, comparison of Weibull distribution including Rayleigh, gamma, log-normal and k- distributions, constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detectors for Weibull clutter, non-parametric CFAR detectors, and signal detection in the time and frequency domains. In particular, the Akaike information Criterion (AIC), which is a rigorously mathematical fit of the hypothetical distribution to the data, is emphasised.

Also available:

Sea Clutter: Scattering, the K Distribution and Radar Performance - ISBN 9780863415036 Ground Penetrating Radar, 2nd Edition - ISBN 9780863413605

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter......Page 1
Preface......Page 3
Introduction......Page 5
References......Page 8
Table of Contents......Page 0
Table of Contents......Page 9
1. Fundamentals of Weibull Distribution......Page 12
References......Page 14
2. Radar Clutter as Statistics with Weibull Distribution......Page 15
2.1 Land Clutter......Page 18
2.2 Sea Clutter......Page 30
2.3 Sea-ice Clutter......Page 49
2.4 Weather Clutter......Page 54
2.5 References......Page 58
3. Signal Detection in Weibull Clutter......Page 60
3.1 False-alarm Probability in Weibull Clutter......Page 61
3.2 CFAR Detector for Weibull Clutter......Page 62
3.3 Non-parametric CFAR Detector......Page 90
3.4 Signal Detection in Weibull Clutter......Page 99
3.4.2 Detection Performance of a Logarithmic Receiver in Weibull Clutter......Page 101
3.4.3 Detection Performance of Binary Integrator in Weibull Clutter......Page 107
3.4.4 Detection Performance of Median Detector in Weibull Clutter......Page 108
3.4.5 Chernoff Bound of Optimum Performance......Page 110
3.5 Detection Performance of CFAR Detector in Weibull Clutter......Page 125
3.5.2 Detection Performance of Non-parametric CFAR Detector......Page 126
3.6 References......Page 135
4.1 Introduction......Page 138
4.2.1 Suppression of Clutter within a Single Sweep......Page 141
4.2.2 Suppression of Clutter within a Single Scan (Multiple Sweeps)......Page 142
4.2.3 Suppression of Clutter within Multiple Scans......Page 152
4.3 Suppression of Weibull Clutter in Frequency Domain......Page 153
4.3.1 Detector for Target Signal Known a Priori Embedded in Weibull Clutter......Page 158
4.3.2 Detector for Partially Fluctuating Target in Coherent Weibull Clutter......Page 165
4.3.3 Adaptive Detector for the Detection of Target Embedded in Coherent Weibull Clutter......Page 166
4.4 References......Page 175
5.1 Weibull and Log-normal Distributed Sea-ice Clutter......Page 177
5.2 Akaike Information Criterion......Page 179
5.3 Determination of the Optimum Probability-density Function for Sea-ice Clutter Using AIC......Page 183
5.4 Suppression of Weibull Sea-ice Clutter and Detection of Target......Page 196
A......Page 198
C......Page 199
D......Page 201
G......Page 202
K......Page 203
L......Page 204
M......Page 205
N......Page 206
Q......Page 207
R......Page 208
S......Page 209
T......Page 210
W......Page 211
Z......Page 212