Title
A Method for Finding Best Channels in Beam-Space Post-Doppler Reduced-Dimension STAP
Abstract
A method for finding best channels as the auxiliary channels to cancel the interference components in the main channel in reduced-dimension (RD) space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is proposed. Motivated by the cross-spectral metric (CSM) which evaluates the significance of eigenvectors; the significance of each angular-Doppler channel to output signal-to-interference-noise ratio (SINR) is evaluated and taken into consideration for the auxiliary channels selection in RD STAP. The proposed algorithm can achieve the best output SINR performance by selecting the best channels as auxiliary channels when the degrees of freedom (DoFs) of a STAP system are fixed. It is demonstrated that the proposed algorithm allows the dimensionality of the STAP to be reduced much less than the rank of clutter without significant SINR loss. The SINR loss will be less than 3 dB when only one channel is selected as the auxiliary channel under the condition of known clutter covariance matrix. Generally, 3~5 channels are enough even when the clutter covariance matrix is unknown. Consequently, the proposed approach can reduce the requirement of the sample support dramatically.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TAES.2013.120145
IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions,Clutter,Signal to noise ratio,Covariance matrices,Airborne radar
Clutter,Control theory,Signal-to-noise ratio,Communication channel,Electronic engineering,Interference (wave propagation),Covariance matrix,Constant false alarm rate,Mathematics,Eigenvalues and eigenvectors,Space-time adaptive processing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
50
1
0018-9251
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.49
6
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Zhang183.87
Zishu He222854.71
Jun Li3172.99
Hongmin Liu480.49
Ying Sun580.49