Clutter property analysis and clutter suppression for Hypersonic airborne radar

Author

Zheng Liu ; Yi Chen ; Rong Xie ; Lei Zhang

Author_Institution

Nat. Lab. of Radar Signal Process., Xidian Univ., Xian, China

fYear

2013

fDate

9-12 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

374

Lastpage

379

Abstract

Clutter property of a forward-looking array radar on Hypersonic Vehicle is analyzed and a method for clutter suppression using multi-stage space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is proposed. This method employs the elevation degree of freedom of the planar array to extract various range ambiguous clutter. Then range-unambiguous non-stationary clutter is compensated by using Doppler Warping (DW) algorithm, and finally STAP in azimuth-Doppler domain is used to suppress the residual clutter. Simulation results are given to demonstrate the validity of the presented method.

Keywords

Doppler radar; airborne radar; aircraft; interference suppression; phased array radar; radar clutter; radar signal processing; space-time adaptive processing; DW algorithm; Doppler warping algorithm; STAP; azimuth-Doppler domain; clutter property analysis; elevation degree of freedom; forward-looking array radar; hypersonic airborne radar; hypersonic vehicle; multistage space-time adaptive processing; planar array; range ambiguous clutter; range-unambiguous nonstationary clutter; residual clutter suppression; Airborne radar; Arrays; Clutter; Doppler effect; Filtering; Radar clutter; HyperSonic Vehicle; STAP; clutter suppression; elevation dimension; forward-looking array radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar (Radar), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Adelaide, SA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5177-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2013.6652016

Filename

6652016