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AN ADAPTIVE CLUTTER REJECTION SCHEMEFOR MST RADARSToru SATO and Kazunori KAMIODepartment of Communications and Computer EngineeringGraduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University,Kyoto 606–8501, JapanE-mail: tsato@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp1 IntroductionSidelobe cancelling is an important issue in various fields of antenna engineering. In atmosphericradar applications, where a sharp antenna beam is usually configured by a large arrayantenna, strong clutter echoes from surrounding mountains are the major source of interference.A clear advantage of the adaptive antenna is that it makes use of an extra information ofthe direction of arrival in discriminating undesired echoes in contrast to other clutter rejectionschemes based on signal processing of the received echoes, such as adaptive filtering. However,conventional algorithms for the adaptive antenna had a serious defect of distorting the antennamain beam pattern when they are directly applied to atmospheric radars.Original sidelobe canceller by Howells (1965) may cancel the output of the main beamunder extremely strong interference signal. This effect is mitigated by adding a limiter inits feedback loop (Abe et al., 1995), but the threshold should be controlled according to theinterference level. Since the sidelobe canceller is regarded as a type of adaptive antenna, DirectionallyConstrained Minimum Power (DCMP) algorithm (Takao et al., 1976) can be usedto suppress the sidelobe echoes while maintaining the desired signal. The same principle is alsoknown as Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) (Haykin, 2001). This idea isfurther utilized in a variety of Generalized Sidelobe Canceling (GSC) algorithms (Griffiths andJim, 1982), which assure the response in the desired direction by controlling the weight of anoutput which does not contain desired signal. Efforts have been made to effectively delete thedesired signal in this output by means of block filters (Fudge and Linebarger, 1996, Chu andFang, 1999, Wang and Fang, 2000).Performance of these algorithms depend on the characteristics of the desired signal, andthe shape of the main beam may be altered when the cancellation is not complete. The mainbeam pattern is an essential design factor in the atmospheric radars since the target is widelydistributed in space, and the ‘desired signal’ is defined as the echoes which return from themain lobe region. A slight change of the shape of the main beam will result in an offset of theestimated wind velocity.Here we introduce a new sidelobe cancelling algorithm (Kamio and Sato, 2003), whichextended DCMP by introducing another constraint on the weight of the receiving array so thatthe main beam pattern of the radar is conserved. We demonstrate its effectiveness by applyingthe technique to actual data taken <strong>with</strong> the MU (Middle and Upper atmosphere) radar. Itsperformance in rejecting the clutter echoes from surrounding mountains is examined, and theoptimum choice of the controlling parameter is discussed <strong>with</strong> actual data as well as numericalconsiderations.436

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