Title :
Data selection strategies for radar space time adaptive processing
Author :
Lombardo, Pierfrancesco
Author_Institution :
Dept. INFO-COM, Rome Univ., Italy
Abstract :
The present paper deals with the selection of the echoes received by modern airborne early warning radar (AEW) systems. It is shown that the proper selection of the radar echoes to be processed can give some useful guidelines for the reduction of the degrees of freedom (DOF) of the space-time processors. This is shown to be have the potentiality of a significant impact on the detection performance. Moreover, different data selection strategies imply different trade-offs between the number of spatial and temporal DOF to achieve the best detection performance
Keywords :
adaptive radar; adaptive signal detection; adaptive signal processing; airborne radar; radar clutter; radar detection; radar signal processing; STAP; airborne early warning radar; data selection strategies; degrees of freedom reduction; detection performance; radar echoes; space time adaptive processing; spatial DOF; temporal DOF; Airborne radar; Filters; Frequency; Guidelines; Radar antennas; Radar clutter; Radar detection; Receiving antennas; Spaceborne radar; Transmitting antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Radar Conference, 1998. RADARCON 98. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4492-8
DOI :
10.1109/NRC.1998.678001
