First results of maritime MTI with PAMIR multichannel data

Abstract

Real multichannel sea data was collected with the radar system PAMIR. During the experiments a small boat acted as a cooperative target inside the observed scene. To evaluate the detectability of the target, the signal-to-clutter plus noise-ratio was evaluated, without any clutter suppression and after suppressing the clutter with single channel and multichannel processing methods. Both approaches were analyzed in dependency of the relative radial velocity of the target.