A novel robust space-time adaptive processing (STAP) method is proposed to eliminate clutter in airborne radar with conformal antennas array.This method filters the target information of range cell under test based on the phase characteristic of target.Then the clutter characteristic are described by constructing AR model and the subspace
which is orthogonal to the clutter and jamming space
is obtained to eliminate clutter.Compared with conventional Doppler compensation methods
direct data domain methods and parametric methods
the proposed method is more robust because its performance can’t be influenced by radar working mode and outliers
and it can be applied for arbitrary array.The simulation results demonstrate its effectiveness.