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Meanwhile, the measurement of the sea clutter data by the airborne radar is usually affected by the motion of the platform, which makes the analysis results unrepresentative of the space-time characteristics of the pure sea clutter. In this paper, a sea clutter measurement method based on L-band shore-based multichannel radar is proposed, where the transmit sub-array periodically moves with the pulse repetition period to obtain multiple sets of coherent processing interval pulses for each range gate. This measurement method can exclude the influences of the moving platform. Moreover, a sea clutter space-time signal model of the single range gate is proposed, and the model is used to simulate three-dimensional sea clutter data with space-time coupling characteristics. With verification of the measured and simulated data, it can be seen that the data composed of single range gate and multiple coherent processing interval pulses can accurately estimate the space-time covariance matrix corresponding to this single range gate. Furthermore, the space-time characteristics are analyzed based on the measured data. The results show that the eigenvalue spectrum and the spread width of space-time power spectrum are influenced by the backscattering coefficient of sea clutter and the speed of sea surface motion. In comparison, the decorrelation effect caused by the backscattering coefficient of sea clutter is stronger than that caused by the speed of the surface motion. The proposed method is helpful for guiding multichannel sea clutter measurement and the analysis results are of great significance to the clutter suppression algorithms of the marine multichannel radar.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14215312","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,24]],"date-time":"2022-10-24T10:09:23Z","timestamp":1666606163000},"page":"5312","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Multichannel Sea Clutter Measurement and Space-Time Characteristics Analysis with L-Band Shore-Based Radar"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Jintong","family":"Wan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"},{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environment, China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, Qingdao 266107, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Feng","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yushi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environment, China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, Qingdao 266107, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jinpeng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environment, China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, Qingdao 266107, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xinyu","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environment, China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, Qingdao 266107, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Effective Sea Clutter Suppression via MIMO Radar Space\u2013Time Adaptive Processing Strategy","volume":"70","author":"Hu","year":"2021","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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