The invention discloses a Doppler
channel correlation two-stage dimension reduction method for an onboard
multiple input multiple output (
MIMO)
radar. The method includes constructing an onboard
MIMO radar clutter signal model and a target space time two-dimensional guide vector; utilizing Doppler filtering to conduct
time domain dimension reduction
processing on the echo data; resolving weight vectors formed by a space domain transmitting-receiving two-dimensional wave beam into a
Kronecker product of a receiving weight and a transmitting weight, building a dyadic and square cost function, utilizing alternative computation to calculate the
optimal weight, utilizing the
optimal weight to conduct receiving and transmitting two-dimensional self-
adaptation wave beam forming and restraining
clutter. By means of the method, the dimension of the obtained weight vectors is greatly reduced, optimum
covariance matrix estimation can be obtained through less samples, and the
clutter restraining performance is greatly improved under small samples. Meanwhile, high-dimensional sampling
covariance matrix inversion is avoided, and the calculation quantity is greatly reduced. By means of clutter restraining, further target detection, target location and tracking and
flight track forming are facilitated. The method is applied to various actual systems like navigation systems.