Adaptive target detection against spatially correlated compound‐Gaussian clutter with multivariate inverse Gaussian texture

To improve the detection performance in the presence of target‐steering vector mismatches, a novel robust adaptive matched filter (AMF) detector for compound Gaussian clutter is proposed. First, the multivariate inverse Gaussian distribution is first introduced to compound Gaussian clutter model. Second, the texture value is estimated with maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimator in spatial domain, which has a closed form and is not affected by the target's steering vector mismatch. A robust AMF detector is derived based on this estimation. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed detector can achieve better performance in the presence of target‐steering vector mismatches.