Compared with conventional two-dimensional space-time adaptive processing (2D-STAP) methods, the elevation-azimuth-Doppler three-dimensional space-time adaptive processing (3D-STAP) method has the advantage of suppressing nonstationary clutter. Thereby, it is suitable for nonsidelooking airborne radar (non-SLAR) applications. However, its huge training data requirements and computational load are often beyond radar's ability in practical clutter environments. In this correspondence, we develop a simple but efficient reduced-degree-of-freedom (DOF) 3D-STAP method that significantly reduces the required training data and the computational complexity while maintaining the suboptimal clutter suppression performance. The proposed method transforms the planar array data into linear array data in azimuth and in elevation, respectively, thereby beamforming an equivalent cross-shape array prior to STAP. In consequence, only a few spatial DOFs, including azimuth and elevation dimension, are used for STAP directly resulting in the potential advantage for nonstationary clutter suppression and drastically reducing training data requirements and computational load. Furthermore, the clutter rank estimation rules of the planar array and the transformed cross-shape array are derived, and the required elevation DOFs of the proposed method are further discussed in detail. Simulations for clutter suppression of non-SLAR show that the proposed STAP method outperforms the state-of-the-art 3D-STAP method in terms of convergence and computational complexity.


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    Title :

    Reduced-DOF Three-Dimensional STAP via Subarray Synthesis for Nonsidelooking Planar Array Airborne Radar


    Contributors:
    Duan, Keqing (author) / Xu, Hong (author) / Yuan, Huadong (author) / Xie, Hongtu (author) / Wang, Yongliang (author)


    Publication date :

    2020-08-01


    Size :

    2813772 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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