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Title:	Analysis of calibration, robustness, detection of space-time adaptive rada using experimental data
Author:	Berin, Murat O.
View Online:	njit-etd1996-043 (xi, 63 pages ~ 2.7 MB pdf)
Department:	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Degree:	Master of Science
Program:	Electrical Engineering
Document Type:	Thesis
Advisory Committee:	Haimovich, Alexander (Committee chair) Bar-Ness, Yeheskel (Committee member) Akansu, Ali N. (Committee member)
Date:	1996-01
Keywords:	Radar.
Availability:	Unrestricted
Abstract:	Signal cancellation effects in adaptive array radar are studied under non ideal conditions when there is a mismatch between the true desired signal and the presumed theoretical desired signal. This mismatch results in decreased performance when the estimated correlation matrix has a large desired signal component. The performance of the sample matrix inversion (SMI) method is compared to the eigenanalysis-based eigencanceler method. Both analytical results and the processing on the experimental data from the Mountaintop Program, show that eigenanalysis-based adaptive beamformers have greater robustness to signal cancellation effects than the SMI method. Also, the calibration of the recorded data, and the pulse compression method utilized to achieve high resolution are discussed.