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The clutter rank serves as a pivotal indicator of clutter characteristics, enabling the quantification of clutter severity. Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is a critical technique to detect moving targets, and clutter rank determines the number of independent and identically distributed (IID) training samples and the degree of freedom (DOF) for effective suppression of clutter that STAP requires. Therefore, the accurate estimation of clutter rank for bistatic radar can provide a crucial indicator for designing and constructing STAP processors, thereby facilitating fast and efficient clutter suppression in bistatic radar systems. This study is based on the idea that clutter rank is the number of prolate spheroidal wave function (PSWF) orthogonal bases utilized for approximating the clutter signal. Firstly, the challenge of utilizing PSWF orthogonal bases for approximating the clutter signal in bistatic radar is elucidated. This pertains to the fact that, unlike monostatic radar clutter, bistatic radar clutter is not capable of being expressed as a single-frequency signal. The clutter rank estimation for bistatic radar is thus derived as the frequency bandwidth estimation. Secondly, to achieve this estimation, the frequency distribution of each individual scattering unit is investigated, thereby determining their extending frequency broadening (EFB) as compared to that of single-frequency. Subsequently, the integral average of EFB across the entire range bin is computed, ultimately enabling the acquisition of bistatic radar\u2019s frequency bandwidth. Finally, the estimation method is extended to non-side-looking mode and limited observation areas with pattern modulation. Simulation experiments confirm that our proposed method provides accurate clutter rank estimations, surpassing 99% proportions of large eigenvalues across various bistatic configurations, observation modes, and areas.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16162928","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,12]],"date-time":"2024-08-12T08:54:08Z","timestamp":1723452848000},"page":"2928","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Clutter Rank Estimation Method for Bistatic Radar Systems Based on Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Xiao","family":"Tan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Zhiwei","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Xianghai","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Lei","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Remote Sensing Satellite, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100094, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaorui","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Remote Sensing Satellite, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100094, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Ward, J. 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