STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF PASSIVE BISTATIC RADAR CLUTTER

Recently, great interest has been devoted to systems that exploit the signal transmitted by an illuminator of opportunity, a non-cooperative transmitter independent from the receiver. In this thesis work, there is at first a description of the concept and the processing stages of a PCL system, then a discussion of algorithms implemented to remove the direct path interference;finally the statistical analysis of clutter from two passive bistatic radar demonstrators is provided