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Static sum-and-difference beam matched STAP method

LIU Bin1,2;HE Guangjun1;FENG Youqian2;YANG Ke3;XU Jingwei4   

  1. (1. College of Air and Missile Defense, Air Force Engineering Univ., Xi 'an 710051, China;
    2. College of Science, Air Force Engineering Univ., Xi 'an 710051, China;
    3. Shanghai Radio Equipment Research Institute, Shanghai 200090, China;
    4. National Key Lab. of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian Univ., Xi'an 710071, China)
  • Received:2016-05-26 Online:2017-06-20 Published:2017-07-17

Abstract:

In traditional space-time adaptive processing (STAP) radars, angle and Doppler parameters are coupled with the adaptive sum and difference technique. Moreover, the parameter estimation performance degrades dramatically if the target signal is included in the training support. In this paper, we propose a novel static sum-and-difference beams matched STAP method. In our approach, the constraint is designed by incorporating both the magnitude and phase responses. The adapted beampattern is forced to be close to that of the static sum-and-difference beams in magnitude and phase response, and thus the mainbeam of the adaptive sum-and-difference beams is well maintained. As a result, the target cancelation due to the presence of the desired target in the training support can be alleviated. The angle and Doppler parameters are decoupled since the static sum-and-difference beams are independent in angle and Doppler domains. Simulation examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Key words: space-time adaptive processing, sum-and-difference beams, angle Doppler parameters estimation, magnitude and phase responses