In this chapter we focus on two space-time processors which are fully adaptive. 'Fully' adaptive means that the number of degrees of freedom as given by the number of array elements and echo pulses will be preserved in the clutter rejection process. 'Adaptive' means that clutter suppression is based in some way on the received clutter data, for instance on an estimate of the clutter covariance matrix.

Inspec keywords: space-time adaptive processing

Other keywords: received clutter data; array elements; echo pulses; fully adaptive space-time processors

Subjects: Radar equipment, systems and applications