Affiliation:
1. College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
Abstract
Parameter estimation is significant to prediction and estimation in the field of radar clutter characteristics. Therefore, it is necessary to study the problem of parameter estimation. The K-distribution is a commonly used model in sea clutter, which is a two-parameter model with shape parameters and scale parameters. The value of the shape parameters should be greater than 0. Moment estimation is usually used to estimate the parameters of the K-distribution. It overcomes the disadvantage of large computation compared with the maximum likelihood estimation method. However, the moment estimation usually uses two different order origin moments to solve the parameters. The joint solution of different order will cause large calculation errors, and sometimes the shape parameter is estimated to be less than 0. In the origin moment expression, the order k can be regarded as a continuous variable. By calculating the relationship between the k-order origin moment and its derivative, a parameter estimation method based on the origin moment derivative is proposed. The estimation efficiency and accuracy are compared with some moment estimation methods. Both simulation data and measured clutter data show that this method can achieve 100% estimation efficiency, can obtain higher estimation accuracy, and can also avoid the situation where the estimated value of the shape parameter is less than 0. Using the same idea to estimate the parameters in the two-parameter models, log–normal and Weibull distribution, we can also obtain the parameters with higher estimation accuracy. The experiments show that the higher-order origin moments are sensitive to the data, and the lower-order moments should be selected as far as possible. By selecting the appropriate order k, we can obtain ideal estimation parameters.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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