Self-Organizing Adaptive Radar Space-Time Adaptive Processing

Self-Organizing Adaptive Radar Space-Time Adaptive Processing (SOAR-STAP) is discussed here. Some investigations have been done on applying SOAR concept to Sigma Delta -STA and D³LS-STAP. The advantages include computation load, sample support, converge rate, etc. SOAR-STAP converges faster than traditional STAP. For same computation time, the response pattern of SOAR-STAP is better than that of traditional STAP. In future, SOAR-STAP can be applied to conformal arrays, sensor robots, etc. The sensors of arrays may be developed independently and deployed incrementally, and then self-organize to form a large array with ability to self-calibrate and correct errors.