Title
Cascaded Suppression Method for Airborne Passive Radar With Contaminated Reference Signal
Abstract
In the airborne passive radar system, space-time adaptive processing (STAP) employs the reference signal for clutter covariance matrix estimation. However, the clutter caused by the multipath signals involved in the reference channel (MP clutter) can corrupt the estimated covariance matrix. When the target under detection and the MP clutter have the same Doppler frequencies and spatial frequencies, the STAP would mistake the target as clutter and target detection performance would degrade. To cope with this problem, a novel cascaded clutter suppression method is proposed. In the proposed algorithm, based on the sparsity of the MP clutter in the range-Doppler domain, the cost function with a sparse constraint is first introduced. Then, an l(1)-based recursive least squares algorithm is used to solve the resulting optimization problem, and MP clutter can be eliminated by the derived weight vector. Finally, the residual clutter is suppressed by the existing STAP algorithm. A range of simulations demonstrates that the proposed algorithm has superior performance in the presence of a contaminated reference signal.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2911136
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Space-time adaptive processing,cascaded method,clutter suppression,airborne passive radar
Multipath propagation,Residual,Computer science,Clutter,Communication channel,Algorithm,Covariance matrix,Passive radar,Optimization problem,Recursive least squares filter,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yaqi Deng101.01
Jun Wang29228736.82
Zhen Luo332.11
Shuai Guo413.05