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Full utilization of the polarimetric characteristics of sea clutter is the key to designing effective polarimetric detectors. For high-resolution maritime radars, the HH-HV dual-polarization is an affordable and effective mode to monitor small targets, owing to the simple configuration of single-polarimetric transmit and dual-polarimetric reception and lower clutter powers at the HH and HV polarizations. Enlightened by the analytical coherent detector in compound-Gaussian clutter with inverse Gamma texture, this paper investigates dual-polarimetric coherent detection in dual-polarimetric compound-Gaussian clutter with independent inverse Gamma distributed textures. The analytical dual-polarimetric near-optimum coherent detector is derived, which is a fusion of the generalized likelihood ratio test linear threshold detectors (GLRT-LTDs) at the two polarizations. For short, it is referred to as the P-GLRT-LTD. It is proven that the P-GLRT-LTD is of constant false alarm rate with respect to the Doppler steering vector, scale parameters of textures, and speckle covariance matrices. Moreover, the thresholds of the P-GLRT-LTD are given analytically. Experiments using simulated sea clutter data with the estimated scale and shape parameters from the two measured intelligent pixel processing radar (IPIX) datasets and two measured IPIX datasets with test targets are made to compare P-GLRT-LTD with other existing dual-polarimetric coherent detectors. The results show that the P-GLRT-LTD attains the same detection performance as the existing best-performance detector. The P-GLRT-LTD has a lower computational cost than the existing best-performing one.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16081315","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,9]],"date-time":"2024-04-09T08:55:12Z","timestamp":1712652912000},"page":"1315","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Analytical Coherent Detection in High-Resolution Dual-Polarimetric Sea Clutter with Independent Inverse Gamma Textures"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Tingyu","family":"Duan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5921-5255","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Penglang","family":"Shui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Jianming","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3557-5897","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuwen","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"245","DOI":"10.1109\/PROC.1986.13457","article-title":"Polarization diversity in radars","volume":"74","author":"Giuli","year":"1986","journal-title":"Proc. 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