In this chapter we develop the models of sea clutter that will provide a basis for our discussion and calculation of radar performance. As we will see in Part IV (Chapters 15-17), a direct approach to the modelling of sea clutter provides many useful insights. Nonetheless, the interactions between the ocean, atmosphere and microwave radiation are far too complicated to be described usefully in strictly deterministic terms. Consequently, the models we develop in this chapter are unashamedly statistical in character.
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