Detection of Aircraft Embedded in Ground Clutter by Means of Non-Doppler X-band Radar

Abstract

It is reported that various radar clutter obey a Weibull distribution under certain conditions. To suppress such Weibull-distributed clutter, a new adaptive method was proposed by the present author. In this method, the parameters of the Weibull distribution and the threshold level for an adaptive Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) detector are determined by calculating the variance before it passes through a logarithmic amplifier. To apply this new method to practical problems observed by an X-band radar, a computer simulation are made for a finite number of samples in order to obtain the CFAR maintenance in Weibull radar clutter. Finally an improvement value of target-to-clutter ratio 30.07 dB was obtained for the detection of an aircraft embedded in ground clutter.