AN APPROACH TO SUPPRESS SHORT-RANGE CLUTTER FOR NON-SIDE LOOKING AIRBORNE RADAR

When the Airborne Early Warning(AEW) radar transmits medial or high Pulse Repetitive Frequency(PRF) signal,the range ambiguity occurs.The clutter of short-range clutter has serious range dependence problem for non-Side Looking Airborne Radar(non-SLAR).As a result,the clutter plus noise covariance matrix can not be estimated correctly,and the performance of clutter suppression obtained by Space-Time Adaptive Processing(STAP) degrades greatly.The uniform linear array has not elevation degrees;therefore,the short-range clutter can not be suppressed directly.A short-range clutter suppression method is proposed.The method first estimate the elevation angles of the ambiguous short-range gate,then eliminates short-range clutter by space time interpolation and adds moving target protection in the procedure.This method can suppress the short-range clutter well.Simulation results show the validity of the method.

基于杂波距离方位谱的机载非正侧MIMO雷达STAP方法

在机载非正侧MIMO雷达系统中,传统统计类空时自适应处理方法难以获得足量的独立同分布训练单元,无法准确估计待测单元杂波特性,杂波抑制性能严重下降。为了减少所需训练单元数,在分析机载非正侧MIMO雷达杂波在距离-方位域上分布的基础上,给出了杂波距离方位谱的概念;然后,利用稀疏恢复方法和距离滤波器估计杂波距离方位谱;根据杂波距离方位谱估计杂波协方差矩阵、构造空时滤波器,滤除杂波、检测目标。由于利用了雷达和载机参数等飞行配置先验信息以及杂波空时耦合关系构造,基于杂波距离方位谱的STAP方法可以在少量训练单元的情况下准确估计杂波协方差矩阵,有效抑制杂波、检测慢速目标,仿真实验证明了方法的有效性。