Suppression of Clutter Near Port by S-Band Radar

Abstract

It was reported that various radar clutters obey a Weibull distribution under certain conditions. To suppress such Weibull-distributed clutter, a new adaptive method was proposed by the present authors. 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 after it passed through a logarithmic amplifier. To apply this new method to practical problems observed by an S-band radar, computer simulation were made for a finite number of samples in order to obtain the CFAR maintenance in Weibull radar clutter which was including sea clutter and ground clutter from a variety of terrain near the port. Finally an improvement value of target-to-clutter ratio 49.5dB was obtained for the detection of ships embedded in sea clutter near the port.