Improved Sea-Clutter Modelling for Multichannel Processing (STAP)

Airborne radars are now equipped with multiple sub-arrays AESA. This enables STAP implementation, which improves slow targets detection, especially on sea clutter. The development and testing of such processing is facilitated using realistic multi-channel synthetic clutter. This paper describes improvements to previously published statistical methods by taking more account of the sea clutter physical properties.