Multi-Channel Analysis of Sea Clutter for STAP Applications

Conference: EUSAR 2012 - 9th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
04/23/2012 - 04/26/2012 at Nuremberg, Germany

Proceedings: EUSAR 2012

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Gracheva, Valeria; Cerutti-Maori, Delphine (Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), Wachtberg, Germany)

Abstract:
This paper compares the channel correlation of real multi-channel land data with real multi-channel sea data. Differences are pointed out and decorrelation effects are analyzed for both data sets. Further, the eigenvalues of the clutter covariance matrix in Doppler domain are examined. Eigenvalues of sea clutter are compared to the eigenvalues of land clutter and the differences are analyzed.