A STAP configuration for airborne surveillance radars

Author

Wang, Hong ; Zhang, Yuhong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Syracuse Univ., NY, USA

fYear

1997

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

222

Abstract

This paper presents a space-time adaptive processing (STAP) configuration for affordable airborne systems with practical apertures to be operated in real environments. In contrast to other STAP approaches relying on the spatial DOF (degrees of freedom) reduction, this configuration creates the system´s available spatial DOF as close as possible to what is needed from the beginning. In addition, it includes pre-suppression of wideband noise jammers (WNJ), sample selection and conditioning, and scan-to-scan track-before-detect (SSTBD) processing. Its main functional blocks are discussed in detail

Keywords

adaptive filters; adaptive radar; adaptive signal processing; airborne radar; interference suppression; jamming; radar signal processing; search radar; STAP configuration; airborne surveillance radar; pre-suppression; sample conditioning; sample selection; scan-to-scan track-before-detect processing; space-time adaptive processing; spatial degrees of freedom; wideband noise jammers; Airborne radar; Apertures; Calibration; Costs; Frequency; Jamming; Semiconductor device noise; Surveillance; Wideband; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 1997., IEEE National

Conference_Location

Syracuse, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3731-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NRC.1997.588307

Filename

588307