Compared with conventional space-time adaptive processing (STAP) technique
sparse recovery (SR) STAP technique can significantly improve the clutter suppression performance in the case of limited training samples
and hence is well suited for practical non-homogeneous clutter environment.Firstly
the paper describes the principle of SR STAP
and analyzes the clutter sparsity in space-time plane for airborne radar.Then the development and current status of SR STAP is summarized.On this basis
some key issues about the technique are discussed which include space-time spectrum estimation or clutter suppression
single or multiple measurements
clutter whitening or nulling
parameter dependence or independence for recovery algorithms
whether applicable for non-stationary clutter environment
and whether feasible under the condition of jamming.Finally
key problems confronted in the real-world applications for sparse recovery STAP technique are presented
which include off-grid effect
influence of spatial errors
and huge computational cost.Meanwhile
effective ways including gridless compressive sensing and self-calibration of overcomplete dictionary are respectively discussed to solve above problems.