J4 ›› 2012, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (3): 185-189+195.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2012.03.030

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Compensation of the clutter spectrum for airborne forward-looking radar based on the Bessel series expansion

JIANG Hui;LU Guangyue   

  1. (School of Communications and Information Eng., Xi'an Univ. of Post and Telecommunication, Xi'an  710121, China)
  • Received:2011-07-24 Online:2012-06-20 Published:2012-07-03
  • Contact: JIANG Hui E-mail:jh02_76@126.com

Abstract:

The clutter spectrum depends highly on the range for forward-looking radar, which results in the heterogeneous ground clutter in space-time adaptive processing (STAP). According to the clutter model, a novel method is proposed. The method firstly uses the Bessel function to separate the azimuth from the elevation, and the spatial-time steering vector could be represented as the azimuth and elevation vector kronecker product to each range gate. Secondly, a transform matrix could be obtained by projecting the training unit of the elevation vector to the tested, which is applied to process the data at a given Doppler gate, and eliminate the heterogeneous ground clutter and generate a sufficient data to construct the new covariance matrix. Finally, the conventional STAP could be applied to the clutter suppression. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Key words: series expansion, forward-looking radar, clutter spectrum compensation

CLC Number: 

  • 959.73