Multiple marine ships tracking from multistatic Doppler data with unknown clutter rate
Cong-Thanh Do, Tran Thien Dat Nguyen · 2019
The data collected by a multi static Doppler radar system includes information on both true targets and clutter. The estimation of clutter directly influences the effectiveness of the multitarget tracker in practical applications. This paper proposes a method for tracking multiple marine ships using multistatic Doppler radar system in an environment with unknown clutter rate. Specifically, the clutter rate is first estimated and then bootstrapped into the state-of-the-art Vo- Vo filter to track multiple targets on-the-fly. Numerical results demonstrate the validity of the proposed method provide that the clutter parameter vary slower than that of the data.