Distribution of X-Band High Resolution and High Grazing Angle Sea Clutter
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This report studies the spatial distribution of X-band, high resolution and high grazing angle polarimetric sea clutter data. The K distribution usually provides a good fit for the distribution of the VV polarised data. The HH polarised data is spikiest and its distribution exhibits a sudden departure from the K distribution in the tail region, which usually requires the KA or the similar distributions to achieve a better fit in the tail region. Due to drawbacks of the KA distribution, this report proposes the KK and WW distribution models to fit the distribution of sea clutter with spikes. It is found that the KK distribution provides overall the best fit. Distributions of the sum of K and Weibull distributed samples are also presented. APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
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