The first maritime surveillance radars in World War II quickly discovered that returns from the sea, soon to be known as sea clutter, were often the limiting factor when attempting to detect small targets while controlling false alarms. This remains true for modern radars, where the detection of small, slow moving targets on a rough sea surface remains one of the main drivers for maritime radar design, particularly in the development of detection processing.

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Monostatic sea clutter
• Chapter 3: Bistatic sea clutter
• Chapter 4: Parametric modelling
• Chapter 5: Sea clutter simulation
• Chapter 6: Performance prediction modelling
• Chapter 7: Maritime target detection techniques
• Chapter 8: New approaches for target detection
• Appendix A: Goodness of fit metrics
• Appendix B: Bimodal parameters for the evolving Doppler spectrum
• Appendix C: Atmospheric and precipitation losses