The present invention relates to the field of
signal processing technology, and provides a method and device for suppressing multipath
clutter in an airborne
radar. The method comprises: calculating the test statistic of each training sample in a sample set, selecting the training sample corresponding to the median of the test statistic as a
reference sample; calculating the
Mahalanobis distance between the
reference sample and each training sample, using the
Mahalanobis distance to perform non-uniform measurement on each training sample to screen out uniform training samples, and determining the unit sample to be detected where the multipath
clutter is located; constructing the space-space domain
clutter covariance matrix of the unit sample to be detected according to the unit sample to be detected, calculating the rank of the space-space domain clutter
covariance matrix, thereby constructing a multi-stage
Wiener filter and a blocking matrix, constructing an space-space domain adaptive weight vector according to the multi-stage
Wiener filter and the blocking matrix; performing space-time joint
processing according to the space-space domain adaptive weight vector to obtain an output
signal. The present invention improves the target
detection performance of the
airborne early warning radar in a complex mountainous multipath clutter environment.