Compound Gaussian Radar Clutter Model With Positive Tempered Alpha-Stable Texture

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Main Authors: Liao, Xingxing, Xie, Junhao, Zhou, Jie
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author Liao, Xingxing
Xie, Junhao
Zhou, Jie
author_facet Liao, Xingxing
Xie, Junhao
Zhou, Jie
contents The compound Gaussian (CG) family of distributions has achieved great success in modeling sea clutter. This work develops a flexible-tailed CG model to improve generality in clutter modeling, by introducing the positive tempered $α$-stable (PT$α$S) distribution to model clutter texture. The PT$α$S distribution exhibits widely tunable tails by tempering the heavy tails of the positive $α$-stable (P$α$S) distribution, thus providing greater flexibility in texture modeling. Specifically, we first develop a bivariate isotropic CG-PT$α$S complex clutter model that is defined by an explicit characteristic function, based on which the corresponding amplitude model is derived. Then, we prove that the amplitude model can be expressed as a scale mixture of Rayleighs, just as the successful compound K and Pareto models. Furthermore, a characteristic function-based method is developed to estimate the parameters of the amplitude model. Finally, real-world sea clutter data analysis indicates the amplitude model's flexibility in modeling clutter data with various tail behaviors.
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spellingShingle Compound Gaussian Radar Clutter Model With Positive Tempered Alpha-Stable Texture
Liao, Xingxing
Xie, Junhao
Zhou, Jie
Signal Processing
Methodology
The compound Gaussian (CG) family of distributions has achieved great success in modeling sea clutter. This work develops a flexible-tailed CG model to improve generality in clutter modeling, by introducing the positive tempered $α$-stable (PT$α$S) distribution to model clutter texture. The PT$α$S distribution exhibits widely tunable tails by tempering the heavy tails of the positive $α$-stable (P$α$S) distribution, thus providing greater flexibility in texture modeling. Specifically, we first develop a bivariate isotropic CG-PT$α$S complex clutter model that is defined by an explicit characteristic function, based on which the corresponding amplitude model is derived. Then, we prove that the amplitude model can be expressed as a scale mixture of Rayleighs, just as the successful compound K and Pareto models. Furthermore, a characteristic function-based method is developed to estimate the parameters of the amplitude model. Finally, real-world sea clutter data analysis indicates the amplitude model's flexibility in modeling clutter data with various tail behaviors.
title Compound Gaussian Radar Clutter Model With Positive Tempered Alpha-Stable Texture
topic Signal Processing
Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05174