Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (4): 1174-1181.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2022.04.13

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Wind speed estimation of low-altitude wind-shear based on homotopy sparse STAP

Hai LI*, Weijie CHENG, Ruijie XIE   

  1. Tianjin Key Lab for Advanced Signal Processing, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China
  • Received:2020-10-13 Online:2022-04-01 Published:2022-04-01
  • Contact: Hai LI

Abstract:

In airborne weather radar front view array, due to the distance dependence of clutter, the training samples of independent identically distributed (IID) are seriously insufficient. The performance of traditional space-time adaptive processing (STAP) algorithm is reduced, and wind field velocity estimation is inaccurate.To solve this problem, this paper proposes a low-altitude wind-shear wind speed estimation method based on homotopy sparse STAP. This method only needs a small number of IID training samples to achieve a better wind field velocity estimation effect.Firstly, the homotopy sparse recovery algorithm is used to estimate the clutter covariance matrix, and then the high resolution space-time spectrum of clutter is reconstructed. Then, the optimal weight vector of STAP processor is solved to filter the clutter adaptively. Finally, the wind speed is estimated accurately.Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Key words: airborne weather radar, homotopy sparse space-time adaptive processing (STAP), low-altitude wind-shear, wind speed estimation

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