Statistical analysis of netrad high resolution sea clutter

This work deals with the analysis of spiky sea clutter data recorded by the high-resolution netted radar system NetRad, used in both the monostatic and bistatic configurations. The effects of spikes on the clutter statistics for monostatic radar signals have been widely studied, but for bistatic ones they are still under analysis. Statistically, the presence of spikes in the data is revealed by the long tails of the histograms, whose similarities with some theoretical models, such as the K, Weibull, Log-normal and the recently proposed Generalized Gaussian one, are examined in this paper. Particular attention is paid to the comparison between monostatic and bistatic data characteristics.