Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (12): 4057-4067.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.12.07

• Sensors and Signal Processing • Previous Articles    

Clutter suppression method for airborne bistatic radar based on gridless sparse Bayesian learning

Junxian CHEN, Longfei SHI, Jialei LIU, Jiazhi MA   

  1. State Key laboratory of Complex Electromagnetic Environmental Effects on Electronics and Information System,College of Electronic Science and Technology,National University of Defense Technology,Changsha 410073,China
  • Received:2024-07-23 Revised:2024-11-23 Online:2025-02-27 Published:2025-02-27
  • Contact: Longfei SHI

Abstract:

Constrained by the grid mismatch problem and the requirement for convex relaxation of the l0 norm in the solution process, all existing sparse recovery (SR) space-time adaptive processing (STAP) methods suffer from degradation in clutter suppression performance. To address the aforementioned issues, a gridless SR-STAP method based on extended Bayesian learning is proposed for the airborne bistatic radar scenario. The clutter space-time spectrum reconstruction problem is transformed into an optimization model based on gridless sparse Bayesian inference. Furthermore, a two-layer cyclic iterative strategy is designed for solution by integrating the maximization-minimization algorithm and the alternating direction method of multipliers. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method exhibits superior clutter suppression performance for airborne bistatic radar compared with existing methods, providing a more optimal scheme for airborne bistatic radar clutter suppression with limited training samples.

Key words: airborne bistatic radar, sparse recovery (SR), space-time adaptive processing (STAP), off-grid, Bayesian learning

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