Abstract
Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is supposed to be a key technique for detection of slow-moving targets in airborne radar applications. To overcome the difficulties of obtaining lots of independent and identical distributed secondary data samples, many sub-optimal STAP algorithms are proposed such as reduced-dimension STAP, reduced-rank STAP, or the sparse-recovery-based STAP. In this study, based on the observation that the STAP filter weight is sparse, a novel clutter-dependent reduced-dimension STAP is proposed. In the proposed approach, the sparse feature of the weight vector in the angular-Doppler domain is utilised to design the reduced-dimension transform matrix. Simulation results show that the output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio loss is just 3 dB with only one secondary data sample in the extremely heterogeneous clutter environments.
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