A Multi-Channel Partial-Update Algorithm for Sea Clutter Suppression in Passive Bistatic Radar

Sea clutters with Doppler-varying spectrum exert a notable negative impact on the detection performance, especially with low-velocity targets, when a passive bistatic radar is employed to detect sea-surface targets. One feasible solution is to modulate the reference signal onto the Doppler dimension and, as such, a filter with a wide notch and sharp edges can be obtained to suppress the residual clutters. However, to achieve this goal, a considerably high computational complexity is demanded in the existing two-dimensional (2D) adaptive filters. In this context, a novel 2D partial-update normalized least mean square algorithm is proposed to reduce the computational load, as well as to yield a superior clutter suppression performance. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is verified by real-data experiments.