Element accessed array radar processing

Garvin D. Wills; H. D. Rees; I. D. Skidmore

doi:10.1117/12.325680

2 October 1998 Element accessed array radar processing

Garvin D. Wills, H. D. Rees, I. D. Skidmore

Proceedings Volume 3461, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations VIII; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.325680
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Digitizing the signals from phased array at the element level is becoming more practicable through advances in technology. Adaptive beamforming schemes such as a sample matrix inversion involve inverting a covariance matrix of dimension equal to the number of spatial channels. Since with an element digitized system there can be several thousand elements it becomes impractical to invert such large matrices. This paper presents a weight computation scheme for a fully digitized system. The clutter returns are firstly range gated and then the adaptive process is broken down into a smaller cascade of stages, or domains. Attenuation of the clutter is then achieved using a spatial Wiener filter in each domain. From a simulation of an airborne radar at a high pulse repetition frequency, examples are given of adapted beampatterns and clutter output doppler spectra within each domain. By choosing alias free domains, a clutter-free output is obtained for the sidelobe clutter scenario investigated. A comparison is then given with the performance of a 32 sub-array system does not have the necessary control of the small scale order of the array weights to spatially null the clutter.

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Garvin D. Wills, H. D. Rees, and I. D. Skidmore "Element accessed array radar processing", Proc. SPIE 3461, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations VIII, (2 October 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.325680

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