Clutter Suppression of Wind Farm for Airborne Radar Based on EFA

With the rapid development of wind power generation, the clutter generated by wind farms may lead to the problems such as decreased detection probability, increased false alarm rate, and target track divergence. Research on the wind farm clutter mitigation technology for airborne radar is vital. Considering the special problems of the wind farm clutter mitigation for airborne radar, such as the less prior information and the more complicated spectrum of the echoes, it is difficult to suppress the wind farm clutter with non-Gaussian and dynamic characteristics. In this paper, the extended factored approach (EFA) algorithm is used to suppress the wind farm clutter through space-time adaptive processing of airborne array radar echoes. The EFA algorithm does not need the prior information of wind farm clutter or a large number of training data and can adaptively form null with a certain width in the Doppler domain. The null is used to suppress the wind farm clutter, which can avoid the interference of the wind farm clutter on the detection of aircraft targets and improve the detection probability of airborne radar. The experiment results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.