Monte-Carlo Based Estimation Methods for Rapidly-Varying Sea Clutter

We consider two Monte-Carlo based methods for characterizing the scattering function of rapidly-varying sea clutter. The first method uses multiple particle filtering to estimate the clutter space-time covariance marix by exploiting the structure of the matrix. This method is then compared to a baseline approach that estimates the clutter covariance matrix based on the Weibull distribution approximation. Both methods are evaluated by formulating a detection problem that simulates a small moving target in heavy sea clutter.

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