The reconstruction of sea clutter plays an important role in target detection and recognition in a maritime environment. Reproducing the temporal and spatial correlations of real data simultaneously is always a problem in the reconstruction of sea clutter due to the complex coupling between them. In this paper, the spatial-temporal correlated proportional method (STCPM), based on a compound model, is proposed to reconstruct K-distributed sea clutter with correlation characteristics obtained from the real data. The texture component with spatial-temporal correlation is generated by the proportional method and the speckle component with temporal correlation is generated by matrix transformation. Compared with previous methods, the biggest innovation of the STCPM is that it can more accurately generate K-distributed sea clutter with both temporal and spatial correlations. The comparison of the reconstructed and real data demonstrates that the method can reproduce the characteristics of real sea clutter well.
Keywords: K-distribution; compound model; proportional method; spatial–temporal correlated sea clutter.