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Parameter Estimation of K-Distributed Clutter Based on Fuzzy Inference and Gustafson-Kessel Clustering


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Davari, Atefeh (2008) Parameter Estimation of K-Distributed Clutter Based on Fuzzy Inference and Gustafson-Kessel Clustering. Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.

Abstract

The detection performance of maritime radars is restricted by the unwanted sea echo or clutter which is the vector sum of scattering from the sea surface. The echo is noise-like and is expected from a set of randomly moving scatters. Although the number of these target-like data is small, they may cause false alarm in maritime radar and perturb the target detection. K-distribution is known as the best fitted probability density function for the radar sea clutter. The accurate and fast parameter estimation of K-distribution for small number of sea clutter radar data is crucial task to avoid irreparable disasters. A novel approach to estimate the parameters of K-distribution based on fuzzy inference has been proposed in the thesis. Takagi-Sugeno Kang (TSK) model has been chosen since human knowledge is unavailable to be captured, whereas the sea clutter for specific parameter can be easily generated. GK- clustering has been used in order to identify the membership function of the antecedent parts. Least Square Method has been utilized to estimate the parameter of the K-distribution, which is represented in the consequent part of the fuzzy inference system. For a real-time implementation of the proposed method, vectorized programming technique has been implemented. In comparison with the conventional methods, this technique has less computational complexity, needs lesser time to train and estimates faster than any existing methods. Since the method is clustering based, some kind of pre-knowledge (rough estimation) is naturally stored in the structure of the TSK-fuzzy system and Least Square provides a mechanism to fine tune the consequent parameters. The novelty of the proposed method is the incorporation of the clustering (as a pre-estimator) with the estimation process. The resultant estimator then overcomes the bottleneck of the existing methods and is capable of handling even a small number of data.


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Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Subject: Parameter estimation
Subject: Radar - Interference
Call Number: FK 2008 59
Chairman Supervisor: Mohammad Hamiruce Marhaban, PhD
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
Depositing User: Nurul Hayatie Hashim
Date Deposited: 28 Sep 2010 03:59
Last Modified: 27 May 2013 07:36
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7868
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