Low-Altitude Windshear Wind Speed Estimation Method Based on KASPICE-STAP

Abstract

Aiming at the problem of low-altitude windshear wind speed estimation for airborne weather radar without independent identically distributed (IID) training samples, this paper proposes a low-altitude windshear wind speed estimation method based on knowledge-aided sparse iterative covariance-based estimation STAP (KASPICE-STAP). Firstly, a clutter dictionary composed of clutter space–time steering vectors is constructed using prior knowledge of the distribution position of ground clutter echo signals in the space–time spectrum. Secondly, the SPICE algorithm is used to obtain the clutter covariance matrix iteratively. Finally, the STAP processor is designed to eliminate the ground clutter echo signal, and the wind speed is estimated after eliminating the ground clutter echo signal. The simulation results show that the proposed method can accurately realize a low-altitude windshear wind speed estimation without IID training samples.

Keywords

• airborne weather radar
• clutter suppression
• KASPICE-STAP
• SPICE algorithm
• wind speed estimation