Clutter Mapping and Performance Analysis for Vehicular Radar Systems

Abstract

Modern vehicular radar operates in various ground environments and its performance is affected by topography. In this paper, we propose clutter maps of existent areas for vehicular radars using the Weibull distribution, and present the performance of the radar system based on the clutter maps. Then, we analyze the radar signal processing performance for the various clutter maps when moving target indicator and constant false alarm detector are employed.