Direct data domain STAP using sparse representation of clutter spectrum |
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Authors: | Ke SunHuadong Meng Yongliang WangXiqin Wang |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China b Science and Research Department, Wuhan Radar Academy, Wuhan 430019, China |
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Abstract: | In the field of space-time adaptive processing (STAP), direct data domain (D3) methods avoid non-stationary training data and can effectively suppress the clutter within the test cell. However, this benefit comes at the cost of a reduced system degree of freedom (DOF), which results in performance loss. In this paper, by exploiting the intrinsic sparsity of the spectral distribution, a new direct data domain approach using sparse representation (D3SR) is proposed, which seeks to estimate the high-resolution space-time spectrum only with the test cell. The simulation of both side-looking and non-side-looking cases has illustrated the effectiveness of the D3SR spectrum estimation using focal underdetermined system solution (FOCUSS) and L1 norm minimization. Then the clutter covariance matrix (CCM) and the corresponding adaptive filter can be effectively obtained. D3SR maintains the full system DOF so that it can achieve better performance of output signal-clutter-ratio (SCR) and minimum detectable velocity (MDV) than current D3 methods, e.g., direct data domain least squares (D3LS). Therefore D3SR can deal with the non-stationary clutter scenario more effectively, where both the discrete interference and range-dependent clutter exists. |
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Keywords: | STAP Non-stationary clutter scenario Sparse representation No training data No DOF loss FOCUSS |
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