The invention discloses a local-area joint-dimension-reduction range
ambiguity clutter suppression method based on an FDA-
MIMO radar so that problems that the existing range
ambiguity clutter suppression method has the poor
detection performance, the operation load is high, and the requirement on the independent and identically distributed samples is high can be solved. The method comprises: stepone, carrying out matching and filtering on echo data of a
radar by using a transmitting waveform; step two, carrying out range dependence compensation on the matched filtered data; step three, constructing a local-area joint dimension reduction matrix and performing dimension reduction on the received data; step three, on the basis of data after dimension reduction, estimating a
clutter covariance matrix; step four, on the basis of a minimum variance, non-
distortion response to a wave beam forming device is carried out to obtain an
optimal weight vector; step five, carrying out weighting on the data after dimension reduction by using an
optimal weight, suppressing a range
ambiguity clutter, and detecting a
target signal. Compared with the existing range ambiguity clutter suppression method, the provided method has the following advantages: the computing complexity is low; the requirement on the independent and identically distributed samples is low; and the clutter suppression performance is good. The range ambiguity clutter suppression on an airborne
radar is realized. The method can be applied to
ground moving target detection of an airborne radar.