Real-time adaptive airborne MTI. I. Space-time processing

Author

Klemm, R.

Author_Institution

FGAN-FFM, Wachtberg, Germany

fYear

1996

fDate

8-10 Oct 1996

Firstpage

755

Lastpage

760

Abstract

Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) has shown to be an efficient tool for detection of slow targets (moving target imaging, MTI) in a strong clutter environment by air- or spaceborne radar. STAP algorithms have the attractive property of implicitly compensating for the clutter Doppler spread induced by the radar platform motion. STAP techniques have been discussed for application with sidelooking (SL) and forward looking (FL) radar configurations. It is desirable to suppress clutter returns on board the radar platform in real-time. In this paper a tutorial overview of a variety of space-time processing architectures for real-time processing is presented

Keywords

Doppler radar; adaptive signal processing; airborne radar; computational complexity; interference suppression; radar clutter; radar detection; radar imaging; real-time systems; spaceborne radar; STAP algorithms; airborne radar; clutter Doppler spread; clutter returns; forward looking radar; moving target imaging; radar platform motion; real-time adaptive airborne MTI; real-time processing; sidelooking radar; slow targets; space-time adaptive processing; spaceborne radar; strong clutter environment; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Doppler radar; Finite impulse response filter; Jamming; Phased arrays; Radar antennas; Radar clutter; Radar detection; Spaceborne radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar, 1996. Proceedings., CIE International Conference of

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2914-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICR.1996.574605

Filename

574605