In order to overcome the detection performance degradation of the existing detection method when the target and sea clutter is hard to distinguish, an improved target detection method based on mono fractal characteristics is proposed. Firstly, for getting the Intrinsic Mode Function (IMF) after reconstruction, the original signal is decomposed by using Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), then the spectrum of target bin and sea clutter bin after denoising is gained by using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), Mono-Hurst exponents are calculated and the target is detected by nonparametric detector. The results show that, although target and sea clutter is hard to distinguish from frequency spectrum, but their Mono-Hurst exponents is different in scale-invariant interval, compared with original detection method in frequency domain, the proposed method can achieve good detection performance.
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