... CIEInternational Radar Conference,Beijing, China, Oct. 8-10, 1996.[6] Staudaher, F.M., Airborne MTI,Radar Handbook, Skolnik, M.I., Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York,1990, chap. 16.[7] Wang, H.,Space-Time Processing ... LLCSpace-TimeAdaptiveProcessingforAirborneSurveillanceRadarHongWangSyracuseUniversity70.1MainReceiveApertureandAnalogBeamforming70.2DatatobeProcessed70.3TheProcessingNeedsandMajorIssues70.4TemporalDOFReduction70.5AdaptiveFilteringwithNeededandSample-SupportableDOFandEmbeddedCFARProcessing70.6Scan-To-ScanTrack-Before-DetectProcessing70.7Real-TimeNonhomogeneityDetectionandSampleConditioningandSelection70.8SpaceorSpace-RangeAdaptivePre-SuppressionofJammers70.9ASTAPExamplewithaRevisittoAnalogBeamforming70.10SummaryReferencesSpace-TimeAdaptiveProcessing(STAP)isamulti-dimensionalfilteringtechniquedevelopedforminimizingtheeffectsofvariouskindsofinterferenceontargetdetectionwithapulsedairbornesurveillanceradar.Themostcommondimensions,orfilteringdomains,generallyincludetheaz-imuthangle,elevationangle,polarizationangle,dopplerfrequency,etc.inwhichtherelativelyweaktargetsignaltobedetectedandtheinterferencehavecertaindifferences.Inthefollowing,theSTAPprinciplewillbeillustratedforfilteringinthejointazimuthangle(space)anddopplerfrequency(time)domainonly.STAPhasbeenaveryactiveresearchanddevelopmentareasincethepublicationofReedetal.’sseminalpaper[1].WiththerecentlycompletedMultichannelAirborneRadarMeasurementproject(MCARM)[2]–[5],STAPhasbeenestablishedasavaluablealternativetothetraditionalapproaches,suchasultra-lowsidelobebeamformingandDisplacedPhaseCenterAntenna(DPCA)[6].MuchofSTAPresearchanddevelopmenteffortshavebeendrivenbytheneedstomakethesystemaffordable,tosimplifyitsfront-hardwarecalibration,andtominimizethesystem’sperformancelossinseverelynonhomogeneousenvironments.Figure70.1isageneralconfigurationofSTAPfunctionalblocks[5,7]whoseprincipleswillbediscussedinthefollowingsections.c1999byCRCPressLLCFIGURE...