DRFM Repeater Jamming Suppression Method Based on Joint Range-Angle Sparse Recovery and Beamforming for Distributed Array Radar

Distributed array radar achieves high angular resolution and measurement accuracy, which could provide a solution to suppress digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) repeater jamming. However, owing to the large aperture of a distributed radar, the far-field plane wave assumption is no longer satisfied. Consequently, traditional adaptive beamforming methods cannot work effectively due to mismatched steering vectors. To address this issue, a DRFM repeater jamming suppression method based on joint range-angle sparse recovery and beamforming for distributed array radar is proposed in this paper. First, the steering vectors of the distributed array are reconstructed according to the spherical wave model under near-field conditions. Then, a joint range-angle sparse dictionary is generated using reconstructed steering vectors, and the range-angle position of jamming is estimated using the weighted L1-norm singular value decomposition (W-L1-SVD) algorithm. Finally, beamforming with joint range-angle nulling is implemented based on the linear constrained minimum variance (LCMV) algorithm for jamming suppression. The performance and effectiveness of proposed method is validated by simulations and experiments on an actual ground-based distributed array radar system.