Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) for wide-band airborne radar

Author

Herbert, Ceoffrey M.

Author_Institution

DERA, Malvern, UK

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

620

Lastpage

625

Abstract

STAP is a technique used to reject clutter returns in airborne phased array radar systems. This paper presents an investigation of the performance of STAP in wideband scenarios. It is shown that, under these circumstances, narrowband STAP is often sufficient for clutter rejection with sideways looking arrays, but that a wideband STAP architecture is needed to reject mainlobe jamming and/or to achieve slow moving target detection with a forward looking array. The effect of time delay pre-steering on STAP performance is also examined

Keywords

airborne radar; delays; interference suppression; jamming; phased array radar; radar clutter; radar detection; radar signal processing; space-time adaptive processing; target tracking; airborne radar; clutter return; forward looking array; mainlobe jamming rejection; narrowband STAP; performance; phased array radar; sideways looking arrays; slow moving target detection; space-time adaptive processing; time delay pre-steering; wideband STAP architecture; Airborne radar; Bandwidth; Clutter; Delay effects; Delay lines; Jamming; Narrowband; Object detection; Phased arrays; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2000. The Record of the IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Alexandria, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5776-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2000.851905

Filename

851905