A comparison of simulation techniques for correlated gamma and K-distributed images for SAR applications

Abstract

Discusses clutter simulation which is an important element in the development of target detection algorithms for radar remote sensing. SAR images are well represented by the K distribution and an important feature of SAR clutter is the autocorrelation function. Methods are described for the generation of realisations from a correlated K distribution with specified correlation properties. Higher order correlations are also considered.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>