Application of the minimum variance monopulse technique to space-time adaptive processing

Abstract

An adaptive monopulse technique has recently been developed to obtain target direction estimates with minimum error variance. In this paper the 'minimum variance adaptive monopulse' technique (MVAM) is extended to space-time adaptive processing (STAP). Simulations of slow moving targets demonstrate the advantages of using MVAM rather than other space-time adaptive monopulse techniques for the estimation of target direction and Doppler frequency.