An airborne GMTI radar simulator based on space-time adaptive processing

Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) has proved to be one of the best techniques capable of detecting weak moving targets in strong clutter environment and has been widely applied in airborne ground moving target indication (GMTI) radar. This paper introduces our work on establishing an airborne GMTI radar simulator, which can be used to test and evaluate existing STAP algorithms and develop new algorithms. Currently, the basic functional frame of simulator has been completed. In practical application, many necessary real-world refinements to the model are discussed and analyzed based on the simulation results.