机载相控阵雷达采用均匀圆形阵列天线具有全方位扫描、同时实现仰俯-方位角估计和天线方向图好等优点;但圆形天线特殊的几何结构使得其各距离单元回波不是独立同分布的样本,造成了空时自适应处理技术性能急剧下降。本文提出了一种基于指数形式导数更新(Exponent derivative based updating,EDBU)的杂波抑制方法,该方法通过对样本数据进行指数形式扩展,减小均匀圆形天线机载雷达杂波的非均匀程度,提高统计型空时自适应处理(Space time adaptive processing,STAP)处理器的性能。仿真结果表明,该方法不仅明显好于局域处理和杂波距离依赖性补偿算法,而且也优于传统的基于导数更新法。
Traditional range-dependency compensation space time adaptive processing(STAP)methods usually involve aligning the clutter spectrums in a certain point to reduce the clutter non-homogeneity.A novel compensation STAP method is proposed as an improved Doppler warping(DW)method for airborne radar with non-sidelooking radar.This method facilitates DW method to bring clutter spectrum of different range gates together in the mainlobe and subsequently compensation to accomplish space angle of different range gates alignment at multiple Doppler bins.Simulation results show that the proposed method can further reduce the clutter non-homogeneity of non-sidelooking array and significantly outperform traditional algorithms with only a little increase of the computation load.
