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In order to address low CFAR detection performance and the modeling problem of non-uniform, non-Gaussian, and non-stationary sea clutter distribution in marine radar images, in this paper, a CFAR detection method in generalized extreme value distribution modeling based on marine radar space-time filtering background clutter is proposed. Initially, three-dimensional (3D) frequency wave-number (space-time) domain adaptive filter is employed to filter the original radar image, so as to obtain uniform and stable background clutter. Subsequently, generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution is introduced to integrally model the filtered background clutter. Finally, Inclusion\/Exclusion (IE) with the best performance under the GEV distribution is selected as the clutter range profile CFAR (CRP-CFAR) detector decision rule in the final detection. The proposed method is verified by utilizing real marine radar image data. The results indicate that when the Pfa is set at 0.0001, the proposed method exhibits an average improvement in PD of 2.3% compared to STAF-RCBD-CFAR, and a 6.2% improvement compared to STCS-WL-CFAR. When the Pfa is set at 0.001, the proposed method exhibits an average improvement in PD of 6.9% compared to STAF-RCBD-CFAR, and a 9.6% improvement compared to STCS-WL-CFAR.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16193691","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,10,3]],"date-time":"2024-10-03T06:45:52Z","timestamp":1727937952000},"page":"3691","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Marine Radar Constant False Alarm Rate Detection in Generalized Extreme Value Distribution Based on Space-Time Adaptive Filtering Clutter Statistical Analysis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5774-8592","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Baotian","family":"Wen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, No. 145 Nantong Street, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1461-9093","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhizhong","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, No. 145 Nantong Street, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-1326-5288","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bowen","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, No. 145 Nantong Street, Harbin 150001, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,10,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"396","DOI":"10.1016\/j.aej.2023.10.014","article-title":"Marine target detection for PPI images based on YOLO-SWFormer","volume":"82","author":"Zhang","year":"2023","journal-title":"Alex. 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