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A new class of total Bregman divergence is presented on the Riemanian manifold of Hermitian positive-definite (HPD) matrix, which is the foundation of information geometry. On the basis of this divergence, total Bregman divergence medians are derived instead of the sample covariance matrix (SCM) of the secondary data. Unlike the SCM, resorting to the knowledge of statistical characteristics of the sample data, the geometric structure of matrix space is considered in our proposed estimators, and then the performance can be improved in a heterogeneous clutter. 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