A Space-Time Adaptive Processing Method Based on Sparse Bayesian Learning for Maneuvering Airborne Radar

Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is an effective technology in clutter suppression and moving target detection for airborne radar. Because airborne radar moves at a constant acceleration, and there is a lack of independent and identically distributed (IID) training samples caused by the heterogeneous environment, using the conventional STAP methods directly cannot ensure a good performance. To eliminate these effects and improve the performance of clutter suppression, a STAP method based on a sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) framework for uniform acceleration radar is proposed here. This paper introduces the signal model of the uniform acceleration radar. To promote the sparsity, a generalized double Pareto (GDP) prior is introduced into our method, and the estimation of hyper parameters via expectation maximization (EM) is given. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by simulations.