A New Differential Clutter Map Processing in Modern Surveillance Radars

Abstract

In this paper we propose a new differential clutter map processing to reduce the false alarms from stationary ground clutter, sea clutter and improve the detection probability of the slow moving target with low Doppler frequency shift. The proposed clutter map is a scan to scan processing which receives the echo signal from Doppler filter bank tuned at lowest Doppler frequency, processes it and delivers the processed signal to the CFAR processing. The simulation results show that the false alarm rate is reduced by more than -30 db. The Clutter map also increased the probability of detection of low speed target, slower than 100 Km/hr.