MIMO fast fully adaptive processing in Over-the-Horizon Radar

Author

Ravan, Maryam ; Adve, Raviraj S. ; Riddolls, Ryan J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

23-27 May 2011

Firstpage

538

Lastpage

542

Abstract

High frequency Over-the-Horizon Radar (OTHR) provides an economical means to track noncooperative air targets over large expanses of land and ocean. However, OTHR in Canada is confounded by the presence of radar clutter from the region of the aurora borealis. Given the time-varying nature of auroral clutter, this paper proposes joint adaptive transmit and receive beamforming as a key tool to deal with this clutter. This beamforming is an alternative adaptive process based on the previously proposed fast-fully adaptive (FFA) scheme extended to couple transmit and receive beamforming, specifically for slow-time multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar. We test the efficacy of this algorithm using measured OTHR data.

Keywords

MIMO radar; adaptive signal processing; array signal processing; radar clutter; radar signal processing; remote sensing by radar; target tracking; MIMO fast fully adaptive processing; OTHR data; aurora borealis; auroral clutter; high frequency over-the-horizon radar; joint adaptive transmit beamforming; noncooperative air target tracking; radar clutter; receive beamforming; slow-time multiple-input multiple-output radar; Array signal processing; Clutter; Covariance matrix; Doppler effect; MIMO; Radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference (RADAR), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Kansas City, MO

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8901-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2011.5960595

Filename

5960595