This book provides an authoritative account of the current understanding
of radar sea clutter, describing its phenomenology, EM scattering and
statistical modelling and simulation, and their use in the design of
detection systems and the calculation and practical evaluation of radar
performance.
The book pays particular attention to the compound K distribution model
developed by the authors during the past 20 years. The evidence for this
model, its mathematical formulation and development and practical
application to the specification, design and evaluation of radar systems
are all discussed. In addition, the book sets the previously empirical
development of the K distribution model in the wider context of recent
advances in the calculation of low grazing angle electromagnetic
scattering and oceanographic modelling of the statistics of the sea
surface.
The authors discuss in detail the prediction of the performance of
specified radar systems; at the same time, their presentation of the
underlying physical principles and analytic and computational techniques
employed in these calculations is sufficiently comprehensive for the
reader to be well equipped to tackle related problems with confidence.
These features, and appendices reviewing pertinent mathematical
background material and the calculation of low grazing angle scattering
by corrugated surfaces, make this book invaluable to specialist radar
engineers and academic researchers, while being of considerable interest
to the wider applied physics and mathematics communities.
