Envelope-Law and Geometric-Mean STAP Detection

Two detectors for space-time adaptive processing (STAP) are proposed here. These are variants that use envelope-law and geometric-mean (GM) (or logarithmic) processing, both being well-known concepts from conventional constant false alarm rate (CFAR) square-law radar detection. The variants are based on normalized adaptive matched filter (NAMF) STAP processing, and their CFAR property is established. Threshold setting for the detectors for specified false alarm probability (FAP) is accomplished using fast simulation based on importance sampling. Performance analyses of these detectors reveal almost indistinguishable loss in detection probability in homogeneous Gaussian interference compared with conventional square-law STAP detector versions. In addition, they exhibit robust detection performance in the presence of interfering targets in the training data for both nonfluctuating as well as fluctuating target models. Comparisons are made with the corresponding envelope-law and GM variants of the adaptive matched filter (AMF) detector previously proposed in a recent paper.

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