Title :
Modelling of the Impact of Antenna Rotation on Clutter Improvement Factor in Naval Radars Operating in Littoral Environments
Author_Institution :
QinetiQ, Portsmouth
Abstract :
Naval operations are increasingly conducted in the littoral environment, requiring extremely high clutter improvement factors (CIF) to be achieved to enable small target detection. This paper describes a littoral clutter model to support synthetic baseband radar data generation and examines the impact of antenna rotation on the clutter filtering required to achieve these high clutter improvement factors. The impact of this analysis on waveform and signal processing design for future naval radars is discussed.
Keywords :
marine radar; radar antennas; radar clutter; antenna rotation; clutter improvement factor; littoral clutter model; naval radars; radar clutter;
Conference_Titel :
Radar Clutter Modelling, 2008 IET Seminar on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-0-86341-901-0