This paper studies several reduced rank partially space-time adaptive processing(STAP) approaches in beam-Doppler domain for airborne phased array radar
which includes the Auxiliary Channel Receiver(ACR)
the Joint Domain Localized(JDL) approach and the Space-Time Multiple-Beam(STMB) approach.A comparative analysis is performed.Several selections of beam number and position are also investigated in detail based on improvement factor
adaptive weights and space-time two-dimensional response characteristics.Theoretical analysis and computer simulation further illustrate that the STMB approach has very low system degrees of freedom(DOFs) and good performance.It is robust to array element error and nonhomogeneous clutter
and therefore feasible and available for airborne phased array radar applications in nonhomogeneous clutter environments.