A Novel Dimension-Reduced Space–Time Adaptive Processing Algorithm for Spaceborne Multichannel Surveillance Radar Systems Based on Spatial–Temporal 2-D Sliding Window
Date
2022-01-21
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IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Abstract
When an early warning radar installed in a spaceborne platform works in a down-looking mode to detect a low-altitude flying target, the severely broadened main-lobe clutter cannot be ignored, which will cause the deterioration of the moving target detection capability. To deal with this problem, a space–time adaptive processing (STAP) technique is proposed for effective clutter suppression based on the spatial–temporal 2-D joint filtering. However, the full-dimensional optimal STAP encounters the challenges of high computational complexity and large training sample requirement. Therefore, the dimension-reduced STAP technique becomes necessary. This article proposes a novel dimension-reduced STAP algorithm based on spatial–temporal 2-D sliding window processing. First, several sets of spatial–temporal data are obtained by using spatial–temporal 2-D sliding window. Then, for each set of data, the 2-D discrete Fourier transform is performed to transform the echo data into the angle-Doppler domain. Finally, jointly adaptive processing is performed to realize the clutter suppression. Compared with the conventional STAP algorithms, the improvements of this method over the existing methods are: 1) the proposed method requires fewer training samples due to the 2-D localization processing and 2) the proposed method can obtain the better clutter suppression performance with lower computational complexity. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm are verified by both simulated and real-measured multichannel surveillance radar data.
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Keywords
Clutter suppression, dimension-reduced STAP, early warning surveillance radar, space–time adaptive processing (STAP)
Citation
P. Huang, Z. Zou, X. -G. Xia, X. Liu and G. Liao, "A Novel Dimension-Reduced Space–Time Adaptive Processing Algorithm for Spaceborne Multichannel Surveillance Radar Systems Based on Spatial–Temporal 2-D Sliding Window," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-21, 2022, Art no. 5109721, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2022.3144668.