Insights into Jammer Mitigation Via Space-Time Adaptive Processing

Keith F. McDonald, Peter J. Costa, and Ronald L. Fante

Abstract:	In recent years, the military and civilian populations have become increasingly reliant upon the Global Positioning System (GPS) for knowledge of geographical location and timing information for synchronous operations, asset deployment, and communications. GPS receivers have been shown to operate with accuracy in benign environments and enjoy a wide variety of modern day applications. The high level of military and civilian dependence upon GPS makes it a likely electronic warfare (EW) target. This effort concerns the mitigation of a particular type of EW known as jamming. Jamming is the direction of electromagnetic energy towards a GPS receiver that causes degraded GPS signal reception and navigational performance. The focus of this work is on a particular jamming mitigation technique known as space-time adaptive processing (STAP). STAP is a signal processing method which combines data from multiple antenna elements to mitigate jamming while concurrently facilitating the reception of GPS signals.
Published in:	Proceedings of IEEE/ION PLANS 2006 April 25 - 27, 2006 Loews Coronado Resort Hotel San Diego, CA
Pages:	213 - 217
Cite this article:	McDonald, Keith F., Costa, Peter J., Fante, Ronald L., "Insights into Jammer Mitigation Via Space-Time Adaptive Processing," Proceedings of IEEE/ION PLANS 2006, San Diego, CA, April 2006, pp. 213-217. https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2006.1650606
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