Title :
Wind turbine radar clutter statistics and probability of detection
Author_Institution :
Defence R&D Canada - Ottawa, Dept. of Nat. Defence, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
A wind farm within the line of sight of a radar not only generates unwanted radar returns in the form of false targets but also severely impacts the radar´s ability to detect targets of interest in the vicinity of the farm. In this work statistical RCS models of wind turbines are developed based on actual wind turbine clutter measurements and detection probabilities of Swerling-1 targets as well as unwanted wind turbines are calculated. Results are compared to those obtained by assuming that wind turbine clutter is Rayleigh (or Exponentially) distributed.
Keywords :
Rayleigh channels; probability; radar tracking; target tracking; wind turbines; Rayleigh channels; detection probabilities; false targets; probability of detection; radar target detection; statistical RCS models; wind farm; wind turbine clutter measurements; wind turbine radar clutter statistics; Clutter; Noise; Probability; Probability density function; Radar cross-sections; Wind turbines;
Conference_Titel :
Radar Conference (RadarCon), 2015 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-8231-8
DOI :
10.1109/RADAR.2015.7130963
