Experimental HF radar trial of real-time STAP

Author

Fabrizio, Giuseppe ; Holdsworth, David ; Farina, Alfonso

Author_Institution

Defence Sci. & Technol. Organ., Edinburgh

fYear

2007

fDate

4-8 June 2007

Firstpage

316

Lastpage

320

Abstract

An alternative multi-static HF radar architecture, known as the Forward-Based Receiver Augmentation (FBRA) system, has been developed and tested by the Defence Science and Technology Organization [1]. The experimental system has performed beyond expectations in a number of trials involving targets of interest. This is not only due to the impressive hardware capabilities, but also the advanced signal processing for clutter and interference mitigation, particularly STAP which was shown to be indispensable for the successful operation of the system. This paper describes the real-time STAP algorithm in the FBRA system, and demonstrates its experimental detection performance on a cooperative aircraft target with flight path "ground truth" data available from on-board GPS logging equipment.

Keywords

interference suppression; radar clutter; radar signal processing; real-time systems; space-time adaptive processing; clutter; cooperative aircraft target; forward-based receiver augmentation system; interference mitigation; multistatic HF radar architecture; on-board GPS logging equipment; real-time STAP; signal processing; space-time adaptive processing; Aircraft; Clutter; Global Positioning System; Hafnium; Hardware; Interference; Radar; Real time systems; Signal processing algorithms; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Waveform Diversity and Design Conference, 2007. International

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1276-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1276-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WDDC.2007.4339434

Filename

4339434