... Hong Wang. Space-Time Adaptive Processing for Airborne Surveillance Radar. ”2000 CRC Press LLC. <http://www.engnetbase.com>.andˆR =1KKk=1ykyHk (70. 3)The SMI performance under ... IEEE National Radar Conference,337–342, Syracuse, NY, May 13–15, 1997.c1999 by CRC Press LLCSpace-TimeAdaptiveProcessingforAirborneSurveillanceRadarHongWangSyracuseUniversity 70. 1MainReceiveApertureandAnalogBeamforming 70. 2DatatobeProcessed 70. 3TheProcessingNeedsandMajorIssues 70. 4TemporalDOFReduction 70. 5AdaptiveFilteringwithNeededandSample-SupportableDOFandEmbeddedCFARProcessing 70. 6Scan-To-ScanTrack-Before-DetectProcessing 70. 7Real-TimeNonhomogeneityDetectionandSampleConditioningandSelection 70. 8SpaceorSpace-RangeAdaptivePre-SuppressionofJammers 70. 9ASTAPExamplewithaRevisittoAnalogBeamforming 70. 10SummaryReferencesSpace-TimeAdaptiveProcessing(STAP)isamulti-dimensionalfilteringtechniquedevelopedforminimizingtheeffectsofvariouskindsofinterferenceontargetdetectionwithapulsedairbornesurveillanceradar.Themostcommondimensions,orfilteringdomains,generallyincludetheaz-imuthangle,elevationangle,polarizationangle,dopplerfrequency,etc.inwhichtherelativelyweaktargetsignaltobedetectedandtheinterferencehavecertaindifferences.Inthefollowing,theSTAPprinciplewillbeillustratedforfilteringinthejointazimuthangle(space)anddopplerfrequency(time)domainonly.STAPhasbeenaveryactiveresearchanddevelopmentareasincethepublicationofReedetal.’sseminalpaper[1].WiththerecentlycompletedMultichannelAirborneRadarMeasurementproject(MCARM)[2]–[5],STAPhasbeenestablishedasavaluablealternativetothetraditionalapproaches,suchasultra-lowsidelobebeamformingandDisplacedPhaseCenterAntenna(DPCA)[6].MuchofSTAPresearchanddevelopmenteffortshavebeendrivenbytheneedstomakethesystemaffordable,tosimplifyitsfront-hardwarecalibration,andtominimizethesystem’sperformancelossinseverelynonhomogeneousenvironments.Figure70.1isageneralconfigurationofSTAPfunctionalblocks[5,7]whoseprincipleswillbediscussedinthefollowingsections.c1999byCRCPressLLCFIGURE ... LLCSpace-TimeAdaptiveProcessingforAirborneSurveillanceRadarHongWangSyracuseUniversity 70. 1MainReceiveApertureandAnalogBeamforming 70. 2DatatobeProcessed 70. 3TheProcessingNeedsandMajorIssues 70. 4TemporalDOFReduction 70. 5AdaptiveFilteringwithNeededandSample-SupportableDOFandEmbeddedCFARProcessing 70. 6Scan-To-ScanTrack-Before-DetectProcessing 70. 7Real-TimeNonhomogeneityDetectionandSampleConditioningandSelection 70. 8SpaceorSpace-RangeAdaptivePre-SuppressionofJammers 70. 9ASTAPExamplewithaRevisittoAnalogBeamforming 70. 10SummaryReferencesSpace-TimeAdaptiveProcessing(STAP)isamulti-dimensionalfilteringtechniquedevelopedforminimizingtheeffectsofvariouskindsofinterferenceontargetdetectionwithapulsedairbornesurveillanceradar.Themostcommondimensions,orfilteringdomains,generallyincludetheaz-imuthangle,elevationangle,polarizationangle,dopplerfrequency,etc.inwhichtherelativelyweaktargetsignaltobedetectedandtheinterferencehavecertaindifferences.Inthefollowing,theSTAPprinciplewillbeillustratedforfilteringinthejointazimuthangle(space)anddopplerfrequency(time)domainonly.STAPhasbeenaveryactiveresearchanddevelopmentareasincethepublicationofReedetal.’sseminalpaper[1].WiththerecentlycompletedMultichannelAirborneRadarMeasurementproject(MCARM)[2]–[5],STAPhasbeenestablishedasavaluablealternativetothetraditionalapproaches,suchasultra-lowsidelobebeamformingandDisplacedPhaseCenterAntenna(DPCA)[6].MuchofSTAPresearchanddevelopmenteffortshavebeendrivenbytheneedstomakethesystemaffordable,tosimplifyitsfront-hardwarecalibration,andtominimizethesystem’sperformancelossinseverelynonhomogeneousenvironments.Figure70.1isageneralconfigurationofSTAPfunctionalblocks[5,7]whoseprincipleswillbediscussedinthefollowingsections.c1999byCRCPressLLCFIGURE...