Many practical problems arise when implementing digital terrain data in airborne knowledge-aided (KA) space-time adaptive processing (STAP). This paper addresses these issues and presents solutions with numerical implementations. In particular, using digital land classification data and digital elevation data, techniques are developed for registering these data with radar return signals, correcting for Doppler and spatial misalignments, adjusting for antenna gain, characterizing clutter patches for secondary data selection, and ensuring independent secondary data samples. These techniques are applied to select secondary data for a single-bin post-Doppler STAP algorithm using multi-channel airborne radar measurement (MCARM) program data. Results with the KA approach are compared with those obtained using the standard sliding window method for choosing secondary data. These results illustrate the benefits of using terrain information, a priori data about the radar, and the importance of statistical independence when selecting secondary data for improving STAP performance


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    Title :

    Implementing digital terrain data in knowledge-aided space-time adaptive processing


    Contributors:
    Capraro, C.T. (author) / Capraro, G.T. (author) / Bradaric, I. (author) / Weiner, D.D. (author) / Wicks, M.C. (author) / Baldygo, W.J. (author)


    Publication date :

    2006-07-01


    Size :

    5615435 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English