Sea Clutter

Professor Keith Ward has worked on radar and military systems throughout his career with his ideas exploited for in-service radars and remote sensing. He is a Visiting Professor at UCL, in electronics and electrical engineering.Dr Robert Tough has carried out extensive research in ocean imaging, small target detection, rough surface scattering, detection theory and range profile classification for a number of clients based in the UK and USA.Professor Simon Watts works for Thales UK and is a Visiting Professor at UCL, in electronics and electrical engineering. His research interests include sea clutter and detection signal processing methods.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionPart I: Sea clutter propertiesChapter 2: The characteristics of radar sea clutterChapter 3: Empirical models for sea clutterChapter 4: The simulation of clutter and other random processesPart II: Mathematics of the K distributionChapter 5: Elements of probability theoryChapter 6: Gaussian and non-Gaussian clutter modelsChapter 7: Random walk modelsChapter 8: Some extensions of the K distributionChapter 9: Special functions associated with the K distributionPart III: Radar detectionChapter 10: Detection of small targets in sea clutterChapter 11: Imaging ocean surface featuresChapter 12: Radar detection performance calculationsChapter 13: CFAR detectionChapter 14: The specification and measurement of radar performancePart IV: Physical modellingChapter 15: High grazing angle radar scatteringChapter 16: Low grazing angle scattering by the ocean surfaceChapter 17: Scattering from a corrugated surface