Statistical analysis of bistatic and monostatic sea clutter

Abstract

In this work, we analyze the sea clutter data collected simultaneously by the bistatic and monostatic nodes of an S-band netted radar system under different out-of-plane geometries. The empirical distribution of sea clutter data are fitted to some known heavy-tailed distributions, and the sea spikes statistics are examined. Our analyses show that spikiness is higher for small bistatic angles and that bistatic data are sometimes less spiky than monostatic ones only for horizontal polarization.