Title :
A STAP configuration for airborne surveillance radars
Author :
Wang, Hong ; Zhang, Yuhong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Syracuse Univ., NY, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents a space-time adaptive processing (STAP) configuration for affordable airborne systems with practical apertures to be operated in real environments. In contrast to other STAP approaches relying on the spatial DOF (degrees of freedom) reduction, this configuration creates the system´s available spatial DOF as close as possible to what is needed from the beginning. In addition, it includes pre-suppression of wideband noise jammers (WNJ), sample selection and conditioning, and scan-to-scan track-before-detect (SSTBD) processing. Its main functional blocks are discussed in detail
Keywords :
adaptive filters; adaptive radar; adaptive signal processing; airborne radar; interference suppression; jamming; radar signal processing; search radar; STAP configuration; airborne surveillance radar; pre-suppression; sample conditioning; sample selection; scan-to-scan track-before-detect processing; space-time adaptive processing; spatial degrees of freedom; wideband noise jammers; Airborne radar; Apertures; Calibration; Costs; Frequency; Jamming; Semiconductor device noise; Surveillance; Wideband; Working environment noise;
Conference_Titel :
Radar Conference, 1997., IEEE National
Conference_Location :
Syracuse, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3731-X
DOI :
10.1109/NRC.1997.588307
