Military Application of Space-Time Adaptive Processing (Les applications militaires du traitement adaptatif espace-temps)

Abstract

Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is a signal processing technique for detection of moving targets buried in ground clutter by means of a moving (air- or spaceborne) radar. No future military air- or spaceborne radar will be designed without this feature. This Lecture Series gives a comprehensive overview of the broad field of STAP, starting with fundamentals, clutter characteristics, application to synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and issues in over-the-horizon radar (OTH). Beside the principles and underlying fundamentals special aspect are covered, such as economic STAP architectures, limiting effects, algorithms for real-time processing, and special applications such as bistatic radar configurations and terrain scattered jamming.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA415645

Entities

Organizations

  • NATO Science and Technology Organization

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angle Of Arrival
  • Computational Science
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Geometry
  • Hybrid Lidar-Radar
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Military Applications
  • Moving Target Indicator Radar
  • Radar
  • Radar Equipment
  • Side Looking Radar
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) EDI Research and Innovation.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects