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Wireless Engineering and Technology, 2011, 2, 175-183 175 doi:10.4236/wet.2011.23025 Published Online July 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wet) Effect of Changes in Sea-Surface State on Statistical Characteristics of Sea Clutter with X-band Radar 1 1 2 Seishiro Ishii , Syuji Sayama , Koichi Mizutani 1Department of Communications Engineering, National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan; 2Department of Intelligent Interaction Technology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan. Email: seishii@rc5.so-net.ne.jp Received March 9th, 2011; revised April 15th, 2011; accepted May 3rd, 2011. ABSTRACT We have made observations of X-band radar sea clutter from the sea surface and sea-surface state in the Uraga Suido Traffic Route, which is used by ships entering and leaving Tokyo Bay, and the nearby Daini Kaiho Sea Fortress. We estimated the distributions of reflected amplitudes due to sea clutter using models that assume Weibull, Log-Weibull, Log-normal, and K-distributions. We then compared the results of estimating these distributions with sea-surface state data to investigate the effects of changes in the sea-surface state on the statistical characteristics of sea clutter. As a result, we showed that observed sub-ranges not containing a target conformed better to the Weibull distribution re- gardless of Significant Wave Height (SWH). Further, sub-ranges conforming to the Log-Weibull or Log-normal distri- bution in areas contained a target when the SWH was large, and as SWH decreases, sub-ranges conforming to a Log-normal. We also showed that for observed sub-ranges not containing a target, the shape parameter, c, of both Weibull and Log-Weibull distribution correlated with SWH. The correlation between wave period and shape parame- ters of Weibull