Evaluation of adaptive space-time processing for inclined sideways looking array airborne radars

Author

Guisheng, Liao ; Zheng, Bao ; Zhiyong, Xu

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron. Eng., Xidian Univ., Xi´´an, China

fYear

1996

fDate

8-10 Oct 1996

Firstpage

78

Lastpage

81

Abstract

This paper evaluates the performance of partial adaptive space-time adaptive processing (STAP) approaches based on Doppler prefiltering for inclined sideways looking array (ISLA) airborne radar, in which the angle between the axis of a linear antenna array with that of platform flight is not zero. In ISLA the STAP is more complex than that in a sideways looking array (SLA), which is the particular case that these two axes are identical. After analyzing the characteristics of the clutter spectrum in ISLA, the principle of reduced rank STAP based on prefiltering is proposed and discussed. Also, several computer simulations are presented

Keywords

Doppler effect; adaptive filters; adaptive signal processing; airborne radar; array signal processing; direction-of-arrival estimation; filtering theory; interference suppression; linear antenna arrays; radar clutter; radar signal processing; Doppler prefiltering; STAP; adaptive space-time processing; clutter spectrum; computer simulations; inclined sideways looking array airborne radar; linear antenna array; performance; platform flight; reduced rank STAP; Adaptive arrays; Aerospace electronics; Airborne radar; Doppler radar; Frequency; Linear antenna arrays; Nonlinear filters; Radar clutter; Spaceborne radar; Weight control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar, 1996. Proceedings., CIE International Conference of

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2914-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICR.1996.573776

Filename

573776