Research on adaptive beamforming for airborne phased array radar

PD mode is usually adopted in airborne phased array radar. However, there are two problems which severely degrade the performance of adaptive beamforming. One is the ground clutter return in the training data, the other is the target return in the training data. Therefore, in this paper, the two problems above are analyzed in detail, and then the methods suitable for engineering realization are presented. Computer simulation results are presented for illustration.