The invention belongs to the technical field of
radar moving target detection, and particularly relates to a space-time adaptive
processing method for airborne forward-looking array
radar. The method includes the specific steps of obtaining a
data vector xnk1, received by the kth pulse of the nth line of array elements of a receiving array of the airborne forward-looking array
radar, of a first distance door, obtaining the data vectors, recorded by the nth line of array elements of the receiving array of the airborne forward-looking array radar, of selected distance
doors recorded within the time period of [KT, (K+1)T], obtaining the
estimation (please see the specifications) of the
dimensionality reduction pitching
covariance matrix of the first distance door of the nth line of array elements of the receiving array of the airborne forward-looking array radar, obtaining the
dimensionality reduction self-adaption weight vector
omega E of the first distance door of the nth line of array elements of the receiving array of the airborne forward-looking array radar, obtaining the
data vector ynk1, received by the kth pulse of the nth line of array elements of the receiving array of the airborne forward-looking array radar, of the first distance door after pitching pre-filtering is conducted, and obtaining the
signal of the kth Doppler channel of the first distance door of the airborne forward-looking array radar through the orientation-Doppler space-time adaptive
processing method after the space-time adaptive
processing is conducted.