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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2012.23.7.822

Approximated Modeling Technique of Weibull Distributed Radar Clutter  

Nam, Chang-Ho (Agency for Defense Development)
Ra, Sung-Woong (Division of Electrical and Information Technology Engineering, Chungnam National University)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science / v.23, no.7, 2012 , pp. 822-830 More about this Journal
Abstract
Clutters are all unwanted radar returns to affect on detection of targets. Radar clutter is characterized by amplitude distributions, spectrum, etc. Clutter is modelled with considering these kinds of characteristics. In this paper, a Weibull distribution function approximated by uniform distribution function is suggested. Weibull distribution function is used to model the various clutters. This paper shows that the data generated by the approximated solution of Weibull distribution function satisfy the Weibull probability density function. This paper shows that the data generation time of approximated Weibull distribution function solution is reduced by 20 % compared with the generation time of original Weibull probability density function.
Keywords
Radar Clutter; Amplitude Distributions; Weibull Distributions; False Alarm Rate;
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