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In this respect, the whole base band is divided into a series of equal-width and center-frequency-diverse sub-bands with the frequency diversity technique, which enhances the multipath-target coupled (MTC) effect with the decreased range resolution. Hence, it is feasible to exploit the multipath signal power to improve the output signal-to-clutter-plus-noise ratio (SCNR) performance of sub-band STAP. In this regard, the mechanism of the MTC effect is analyzed numerically for the efficient sub-band STAP. However, such SCNR improvement is achieved at the cost of target tracking performance loss. Hence, the full-band STAP is further applied for multipath-target separation based on the target range-Doppler locations detected by the joint multiple sub-bands \u03a3\u0394-STAP, which also alleviates the dynamic target attenuation and the corresponding target Doppler history corruption within the long coherent processing interval (CPI). On this basis, the SCNR performance is further improved by applying coherent accumulation among sub-CPIs, in which the clutter suppression performance degradation and coherent accumulation loss of STAP are alleviated within the sub-CPIs. Numerical and measured results corroborate the effectiveness of ULAT detection with the considered multi-resolution STAP.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13214212","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,20]],"date-time":"2021-10-20T21:31:26Z","timestamp":1634765486000},"page":"4212","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Multi-Resolution STAP for Enhanced Ultra-Low-Altitude Target Detection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Haodong","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Lab of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guisheng","family":"Liao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Lab of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1865-6214","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jingwei","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Lab of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Cao","family":"Zeng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Lab of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiongpeng","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Lab of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pengfei","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Lab of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"808","DOI":"10.1109\/TAES.2017.2767919","article-title":"Height Measurement of Low-Angle Target Using MIMO Radar Under Multipath Interference","volume":"54","author":"Liu","year":"2017","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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