Bistatic MIMO Radar Clutter Suppression by Exploiting the Transmit Angle

Abstract

The transmit angle of bistatic radars can be obtained by introducing Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar techniques. The Three-Dimensional (3D) clutter spectra, that is, the transmit angle, receive angle, and Doppler frequency, are introduced using the additional angle information to Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP). This study reviews the researches on bistatic MIMO-STAP. 3D space-time adaptive processing methods for airborne bistatic side-looking MIMO radars, such as 3D-LCMV, 3D-ACR, 3D-JDL, and 3D projection-based reduced dimensional STAP methods, are discussed. Simulation results show that the proposed methods can improve the small-sample support performance of range-dependent clutter suppression in bistatic side-looking MIMO radar. Finally, the results are summarized and the prospects of bistatic MIMO-STAP are discussed.

Keywords

• Bistatic radar
• Multiple-Input Multiple Output (MIMO) radar
• Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP)
• Clutter suppression