STAP for airborne radar with cylindrical phased array antennas

Signal Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 883-893

  Xie, Wenchong ^a   Wang, Yongliang ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RADAR ACADEMY   (China)

Author keywords

Airborne radar; Cylindrical phased array antenna; Detection; Space time adaptive processing (STAP)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); POLARIZATION; POWER CONVERTERS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

AIRBORNE RADAR; ANGULAR FREQUENCIES; ANTENNA PATTERNS; CLUTTER MODELS; CLUTTER SUPPRESSIONS; CYLINDRICAL ARRAYS; CYLINDRICAL PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA; DETECTION; DIRECT DATA DOMAINS; EIGENVALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; MATHEMATICS MODELS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PLANAR PHASED ARRAYS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SPACE-TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING (STAP); SPACE-TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECTRUM DISTRIBUTIONS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 58849118837     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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