Comparison of methods for handling the range- dependence of the clutter ridge for monostatic and bistatic STAP radars
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Detection of slow moving targets using a moving pulsed Doppler radar system has been a problem of great interest for quite some time [1]. One distinguishes between monostatic (MS) configurations, where the radar transmitter and receiver are colocated and bistatic (BS) configurations, where they are physically separated and have separated motions. In either case, a train of coherent pulses is transmitted and the corresponding returns are sensed at each of the elements of a linear antenna array.
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