Electromagnetic probing for target detection: rejection of surface clutter based on the Wigner distribution.

The Wigner distribution function is investigated as a signal processing tool to detect subsurface targets closely located beneath a randomly rough surface. Information provided by a bistatic arrangement of sources and detectors can be used to discriminate target and surface response based on their scattering behavior. It is shown that the bilinearity of the Wigner distribution function can be exploited for nonlinear amplification of the target response. This is achieved by averaging the Wigner distribution of the detected signal for different source locations. Target detection is further improved by numerically backpropagating the detected signal to the surface. A statistical evaluation based on simulated data sets is used to evaluate the performance of the detection method.

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