Methods of small slow moving targets detection in heavy sea clutter

Authors

  • O. D. Mrachkovsky National Technical University of Ukraine, Kyiv Politechnic Institute, Kiev
  • V. I. Pravda National Technical University of Ukraine, Kyiv Politechnic Institute, Kiev
  • S. I. Turko National Technical University of Ukraine, Kyiv Politechnic Institute, Kiev

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20535/RADAP.2013.53.136-150

Keywords:

sea clutter, K-distribution, likelihood ratio, adaptive detection, covariance matrix, multilayer perceptron, neural networks, polarimetric decomposition, Pauli vector, polarimetric entropy, Hurst parameter, fractal analyses

Abstract

The search for methods of small targets detection by marine radars is carried out in this paper. As a result of the sources analysis three promising group of methods are selected – adaptive methods based on the clutter amplitude spherically invariant random process representation, methods based on non stohastic clutter representation and methods based on orthogonal transformations. Separately, neural networks and clutter polarization properties are noticed.

Most of researches consider compound Gaussian distribution for high resolution sea clutter data modeling. Adaptive CFAR algoritm developed by Kelly for Gaussian clutter was extended for spherical invariant random process. This algorithm can detect target in compound Gaussian clutter and ensure CFAR detection if covariance matrix is precisely known. Many researches proposed different methods of covariance matrix estimating using information from cells adjacent with cell under test. Progress in this field is moving to finding less computation cost but more precise methods of covariance matrix estimation.

Further progress for small slow moving targets in heavy sea clutter detection can develop in 3 ways – improving covariance matrix estimation, exploiting not stochastic methods and finding best orthogonal transform for sea clutter Doppler spectrum describing.

Author Biographies

O. D. Mrachkovsky, National Technical University of Ukraine, Kyiv Politechnic Institute, Kiev

Cand. Of Sci (Technics), associate professor

V. I. Pravda, National Technical University of Ukraine, Kyiv Politechnic Institute, Kiev

Cand. Of Sci (Technics), Professor

S. I. Turko, National Technical University of Ukraine, Kyiv Politechnic Institute, Kiev

postgraduate student

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Chan H.C. Radar sea-clutter at low grazing angles / H.C. Chan // IEE proceedings - Radar and Signal Processing.- 1990.- №2.- p. 102-112.

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Gini F. Covariance matrix estimation for CFAR detection in heavy tailed clutter / F. Gini, M. Greco // Signal Processing.- 2002.- p. 1495–1507.

Younsi A. Performance of the adaptive normalized matched filter detector in compound-gaussian clutter with inverse gamma texture model / A. Younsi, M. Nadour // Progress In Electromagnetics Research.- 2011.- p. 21–38.

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Panagopoulos S. Small-target detection in sea clutter / S. Panagopoulos, J.J. Soraghan // EEE Transactions on Geoscience and RemoteSensing.- 2004.- №7.- p. 1355–1361.

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Bo Zhang A new covariance matrix estimation method in compound Gaussian sea clutter / Bo Zhang, Feng Luo, Linrang Zhang, Gaogao Liu // Journal of Computational Information Systems.- .- p. 9353–9359.

Adaptive thresholding in Marine RADARs / [Alaee M., Firoozmand M., Amiri R., Sepahvand M.] // Iranian Journal of Electrical & Electronic Engineering.- 2010.- №3.- p. 168-174.

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Waveform-agile tracking in heavy sea clutter / [Sira S.P., Papandreou-Suppappola A., Morrell D., Cochran D.] // Waveform Diversity and Design Conference.- 2007.- p. 372 - 376.

Hwang S.I. A new technique for the improved accuracy of small ship detection by synthetic aperture radar imagery / S.I. Hwang, K. Ouch // International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation.- 2009.- p. 3716 - 3719.

Anfinsen S.N. Improved target detection in polarimetric sar images by use of Mellin kind statistics / Anfinsen S.N., Tao D., Brekke C. // Proc. POLinSAR.- 2011.-4 p..

Tao D. An experimental study on ship detection based on the fixed-point polarimetric whitening filter / Tao D., Brekke C., Anfinsen S. // Proc. SPIE 8180, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XVII.- 2011.-9 p..

Sea-clutter modeling using a radial-basis-function neural network / [Hennessey G., Leung H., Drosopoulos A., Yip P.] // IEEE J. Oceanic Eng..- 2001.- №3.- p. 358–372.

Leung H. Signal detection using the radial basis function coupled map lattice / Leung H., Hennessey G., Drosopoulos A. // IEEE T. Neural Networ..- 2000.- №11.- p. 1133–1151.

Rico-Ramirez M. Classification of ground clutter and anomalous propagation using dual-polarization weather radar / M. Rico-Ramirez, I. Cluckie // IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.- 2008.- №7.- p. 1892–190.

Sea clutter reduction and target enhancement by neural networks in a marine radar system / [Vicen-Bueno R., Carrasco-Alvarez R., Rosa-Zurera M., Nieto-Borge J.C.] // Sensors.- 2009.- №3.- p. 1913-1936.

Peng Wu A novel method of small target detection in sea clutter / Peng Wu, Jun Wang, Wenguang Wang // International Scholarly Research Network Signal Processing.- 2011.-10 p.

Ward K.D. Sea spikes and radar false alarm rates / Ward K.D., Tough R.J.A., Shepherd P.W. // 3rd EMRS DTC Technical Conference.- 2006.- 6 p..

Liu Jingya Radar sea clutter suppression and target indication with a spatial tracking filter / Liu Jingyao, Meng Huadong, Zhang Hao, Wang Xiqin // Tsinghua Science And Technology.- 2010.- №2.- .

Jingyao Liu Radar sea clutter suppression and target detection with α−β−γ filter / Jingyao Liu, Huadong Meng, Xiqin Wang // 9th International Conference on Signal Processing.- 2008.- p. 2376 - 2379.

Recursive errors-in-variables approach for ar parameter estimation from noisy observations. Application to radar sea clutter rejection / [Petitjean J., Diversi R. a.o.] // IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.- 2009.- p. 3401 - 3404.

Wensink H.E. On parametric detection of small targets in sea clutter / H.E. Wensink // Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Fusion.- 2000.- p. 17-24.

Jing Hu Detection of low observable targets within sea clutter by structure function based multifractal analysis / Jing Hu, Jianbo Gao, Kung Yao, Ungsik Kim // IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.- 2005.- p. 709 - 712.

Target detection within sea clutter: a comparative study by fractal scaling analyses / [Jing Hu , Jianbo Gao, F.L. Posner a.o.].- West Lafayette: Purdue University, 2006.- 40 p.

Published

2013-06-10

How to Cite

Мрачковський, О., Правда, В. and Турко C. (2013) “Methods of small slow moving targets detection in heavy sea clutter”, Visnyk NTUU KPI Seriia - Radiotekhnika Radioaparatobuduvannia, 0(53), pp. 136-150. doi: 10.20535/RADAP.2013.53.136-150.

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