Measurements and Modeling of Heterogeneous Radar Clutter

Abstract

This paper uses measurements made in the AFIT compact range to validate a mixture model for heterogeneous clutter in a coarse resolution cell. Further analysis shows the clutter measurements are correlated over approximately 4° in azimuth. The statistical characterizations in this paper are informative for building target detection and recognition algorithms that support coarse resolution radars, such as those that utilize narrowband communications waveforms.