AR-based growler detection in sea clutter

Author

Nohara, Tim J. ; Haykin, Simon

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Lab., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont., Canada

Volume

41

Issue

3

fYear

1993

fDate

3/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1259

Lastpage

1271

Abstract

A technique that performs better than conventional, noncoherent marine radars in detecting small pieces of glacial ice (growlers) in the sea is reported. A coherent detector based on an autoregressive (AR) parameterization of received radar echoes that distinguishes growler returns from the background sea clutter returns is considered. A conventional noncoherent detector is also evaluated as a basis for comparison. The AR-based detector is shown to offer significant improvements in detecting growlers. The results reported are based on real X-band radar data

Keywords

image processing; oceanographic techniques; radar clutter; radar systems; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; ships; spectral analysis; statistical analysis; AR-based growler detection; ARLPM detector; X-band radar data; autoregressive largest pole magnitude detector; autoregressive parameterization; coherent detector; glacial ice; measurement; microwave; ocean; radar images; received radar echoes; remote sensing; sea clutter; sea ice; ship-based radar; technique; Arctic; Detectors; Ice; Marine vehicles; Navigation; Petroleum; Power generation economics; Radar clutter; Radar detection; Springs;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1053-587X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/78.205728

Filename

205728