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

作　　者：Li Ming Liao Guisheng Zhang Liang 

机构地区：[1]National Lab of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi＇an 710071, China [2]Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, Nanjing 210000, China

出　　处：《Journal of Electronics(China)》2011年第1期64-70,共7页电子科学学刊（英文版）

基　　金：Support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60736009 and No.60825104)

摘　　要：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.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 am- biguous 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.

关 键 词：Non-Side Looking Airborne Radar(non-SLAR) Range ambiguity Space-Time Adaptive Processing(STAP) Space-time interpolation 

分 类 号：TN957[电子电信—信号与信息处理]