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Robust parameter estimation for the Double K distribution in heavy-tailed sea clutter using a multi-population genetic algorithm

Published Online: 2026-09-10

Authors

Yang, Bin

Tong, Hua

Qiao, Lei

Zhang, Lu

Han, Aifu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7990-0188
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Wuxi University Research Start-up Fund for High-level Talents (2024r019)
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Article History

Received: 2 June 2026

Accepted: 31 August 2026

First Online: 10 September 2026

Declarations

Code availability: The MATLAB implementation of the MPGA, simulation scripts, parameter settings, random-seed records, and measured-data analysis scripts are provided as Supplementary Software S1.

Competing interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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