A STAP overview

Author

Melvin, William L.

Author_Institution

Sensors & Electromagn. Applications Lab., Georgia Tech Res. Inst., Smyrna, GA, USA

Volume

19

Issue

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

35

Abstract

This tutorial provides a brief overview of space-time adaptive processing (STAP) for radar applications. We discuss space-time signal diversity and various forms of the adaptive processor, including reduced-dimension and reduced-rank STAP approaches. Additionally, we describe the space-time properties of ground clutter and noise-jamming, as well as essential STAP performance metrics. We conclude this tutorial with an overview of some current STAP topics: space-based radar, bistatic STAP, knowledge-aided STAP, multi-channel synthetic aperture radar and non-sidelooking array configurations.

Keywords

airborne radar; jamming; military radar; radar clutter; radar signal processing; space-time adaptive processing; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; bistatic STAP; ground clutter; knowledge-aided STAP; moving target indication; multichannel synthetic aperture radar; noise-jamming; nonsidelooking array configurations; performance metrics; radar applications; reduced-dimension approaches; reduced-rank approaches; space-based radar; space-time adaptive processing; space-time signal diversity; tutorial overview;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MAES.2004.1263229

Filename

1263229