前视阵雷达多普勒补偿与和差波束降维STAP方法研究

    Research on Doppler Compensation and Sum-Difference Beam Dimensionality Reduction STAP Methods for Forward Scattering Radar

    • 摘要: 机载前视阵列雷达在下视工作时,地物杂波在方位-多普勒域呈现强烈的距离依赖性(非平稳性),导致传统空时自适应处理(STAP)因缺乏独立同分布(IID)训练样本而性能严重下降。针对这一问题,提出一种基于几何映射多普勒补偿与和差波束联合降维的STAP方法。建立前视阵雷达杂波的几何模型,推导杂波空时导向矢量与距离门的依赖关系,构造距离依赖的多普勒频移补偿矩阵,采用和差波束三通道联合构建9维降维STAP处理架构,在保持足够自适应自由度的同时大幅降低运算量和训练样本需求。仿真结果表明,所提方法能够显著抑制杂波的距离非平稳性,补偿后改善因子提升10 dB以上,对慢速目标的检测性能优于传统STAP方法。

       

      Abstract: When operating in downward-looking mode, airborne array radars exhibit strong distance dependence (non-stationarity) of near-field clutter in the azimuth-Doppler domain. This severely compromises the performance of traditional space-time adaptive processing (STAP) methods due to the lack of independently identically distributed (IID) training samples. To address this issue, we propose a STAP method combining geometric mapping-based Doppler compensation with joint dimensionality reduction using sum-difference beams. By establishing a geometric model for radar clutter, deriving the relationship between clutter's spatiotemporal direction vectors and distance thresholds, and constructing a distance-dependent Doppler shift compensation matrix, we develop a 9-dimensional STAP architecture that integrates three-channel sum-difference beam data. This approach maintains sufficient adaptive flexibility while significantly reducing computational complexity and training requirements. Simulation results demonstrate that our method effectively suppresses distance non-stationarity in clutter, achieving over 10 dB improvement in compensation factor performance, and outperforms conventional STAP methods in detecting slow-moving targets.

       

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