Performance Evaluation of Two Multistatic Radar Detectors on Real and Simulated Sea-Clutter Data

In this paper we evaluate the performance of two multistatic radar detection schemes on real and synthetically-generated sea clutter data. The analysis utilizes both monostatic and bistatic radar data, simultaneously collected by the nodes of the NetRAD system. The first contribution is a demonstration of how the evolved Doppler spectrum model can accurately simulate multistatic sea-clutter with statistical and spectral properties which match the real data. The second contribution is an analysis of the detection performance obtained from different bistatic angles and a demonstration that the results from both real and simulated data are comparable.