access icon free Experimental analysis of multistatic wind turbine radar clutter statistics

This Letter presents preliminary results of the analysis of amplitude statistics of wind turbine clutter as extracted from multistatic radar data. It is shown that the T-location-scale distribution provides good fitting of the experimental data, and that there are combinations of bistatic angle and polarisations where the bistatic clutter has more favourable statistics for target detection than the simultaneous monostatic clutter.

Inspec keywords: radar clutter; object detection; wind turbines; statistics

Other keywords: target detection; T-location-scale distribution; amplitude statistics; bistatic clutter; multistatic radar data; multistatic wind turbine radar clutter statistics; monostatic clutter; bistatic angle

Subjects: Radar theory; Radar equipment, systems and applications; Signal processing and detection; Other topics in statistics; Wind power plants

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