The adaptive hybrid algorithm for sea clutter denoising based on CEEMDAN

Based on the complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (CEEMDAN) theory, a new adaptive hybrid algorithm for sea clutter denoising is proposed. The chaotic sea clutter signals are decomposed into several intrinsic modal functions (IMF) which start from high-frequency scales to low-frequency scales by using CEEMDAN. According to the relationship between the pretreatment threshold layer and the maximum cross correlation coefficient of the original signal and each IMF corresponding the layer, the proposed algorithm can independently select the wavelet threshold denoising to pretreat. After the pretreatment of original signals, we continue to decompose the signal by CEEMDAN. And later, according to the relationship between the first local minimum corresponding the layers of two adjacent critical IMFs identified by the cross correlation coefficients of the original signal and each IMF, the proposed algorithm adaptively selects the IMFs which need to be filtered. Finally, the IMFs after filtering are reconstructed into a new signal. Rossler, Lorenz system and the measured sea clutter data were selected as examples to study, the result shows that: under the condition of low noise (SNR ≥ 5dB) and high noise (SNR ≤ 0dB), the proposed algorithm can decrease the root mean square error by at least 57% and 72% compared with wavelet threshold denoising etc, the signal to noise ration increased by 3.18-5.64db and 5.73-7.45db. Moreover, the root mean square error after sea clutter signal denoising can be reduced by one order of magnitude, reaching 0.0006147 while the model before denoising only reach 0.0084, which shows that the proposed algorithm is effective for sea clutter signal denoising.