Coherent sidelobe canceller for radar.

摘要

A coherent sidelobe canceller configured as a linear array antenna system having a digital open-loop configuration comprises signal receiver means having (N+1) channels (CHo to CHN) where N is an integer for a main antenna (200-0), N auxiliary antennas (200-1 to 200-N). Signal receivers (210-0 to 210-N) connected to the antennas produce radar video signals. Analog-to-digital converters (220-0 to 220-N) convert the radar video signals to digital signals and memories (230-0 to 230-N) store the digital signals. Weighting coefficient calculating means (270, 280) perform statistical calculation processing with respect to the time-sequential digital signals, thus calculating weighting coefficients based on the statistical characteristic of the input signals. Multipliers (240-0 to 240-N) multiply the weighting coefficients by the respective digital signals delayed by the memories (230-0 to 230-N) to take account of the time taken for weighting coefficient calculation. An adder sums the output signals from the multipliers, thereby enabling suppression of interference signals based on real time processing. Coefficient calculation is effected specifically by forming a covariance matrix 0 (cir- cuit 270) and then calculating a weighting coefficient vector W as W = µ Ø-1S* where µ is a constant and S* is an arbitrary vector. A circuit (260) detects a clutter region to include the clutter components from the coefficient calculation.