Sea Spike Modeling

Abstract

In this thesis a clutter voltage model for scattering from the sea surface is developed. A model for the scattering from a whitecap and a wave breaking occurrence model are combined to simulate the back scattered signal from one radar resolution cell. The simulation is performed to obtain the probability density function of sea clutter under different assumptions of wind velocities and wave breaking conditions. Some measured quantities such as the mean clutter voltage and the correlation time are incorporated into this model as parameters. The probability density function depends on the parameters of this model. The obtained probability density functions do not confirm to any familiar simple density function. Keywords: Spike; Clutter; Radar cross section; Radar; Probability density function.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA205355

Entities

People

  • Chin-chuan Kuo

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Engineering
  • False Alarms
  • Geometry
  • High Resolution
  • Numbers
  • Ocean Waves
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Radar
  • Random Number Generators
  • Random Variables
  • Sea Clutter
  • Stationary Processes
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Wind Velocity

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.