Analysis of Experimental Data of IPIX Radar

Doppler spectrum and amplitude statistics are the effective means to describe and analyze the sea clutter. The research on the law of the sea clutter is important for the improvement of radar detection performance and the acquisition of ocean information. This paper makes a study on the IPIX radar experiment data in the case of X-band electromagnetic frequency and low glancing angle, we compared the impacts of different levels of the sea, the wind and polarization on the Doppler spectrum and amplitude statistical distribution characteristics of sea clutter. On the other hand, we fit the distribution of sea clutter with Rayleigh distribution, lognormal distribution, Weibull distribution, k distribution and Tsallis distribution to research the optimal distribution characteristics.