Research on the Influence of Ocean Environment on Sea Clutter

Generally sea clutter is regarded as the radar clutter echoes, which interferes in target acquisition ability of marine radar. Synchronously the ocean environment parameters affect the intensity and other aspects of sea clutter. So sea clutter has been used to estimate ocean environment parameters by Oceanographic researchers. Fist of all we should discuss how the ocean environment parameters influence the sea clutter, such as wave, current, wind and so on. This paper focuses on the formation mechanism of the sea clutter. The impact of ocean environment parameters on sea clutter is studied, and the impact of radar parameters is also considered. The paper contributes to inversion of the ocean environment parameters from sea clutter.