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Terrestrial transmitters, commonly known as illuminators of opportunity in the passive radar community, usually emit the signals in the Very High Frequency (VHF) or Ultra High Frequency (UHF) band. Due to the long wavelengths of the VHF\/UHF band, there are constraints on the size of the used antenna elements, and therefore, the number of antenna elements to be employed is limited, especially as the platform carrying the passive radar system is intended to be small, potentially even an unmanned aerial vehicle. In order to detect moving targets hidden by Doppler shifted clutter returns, one common approach is to suppress the clutter returns by applying clutter suppression techniques that rely on spatial and temporal degrees of freedom, such as Displaced Phase Center Antenna (DPCA) or Space-Time Adaptive Processing. It has been shown that the DPCA approach is a meaningful technique to suppress the clutter if two antenna elements are employed. However, if the employed receiving channels are not carefully calibrated, the clutter suppression is shown to be not effective. Here, we suggest a three-stage calibration technique in order to perform the calibration of two receiving channels, which involves the exploitation of the direct signal, a data-adaptive amplitude calibration, and finally, a data-adaptive calibration of phase mismatches between both receiving channels by the estimation of the Minimum Variance Power Spectrum of the clutter. The validity of the proposed approach is shown with simulated data and demonstrated on real data from a fast ground moving platform, showing improved clutter cancellation capabilities.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21010069","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,24]],"date-time":"2020-12-24T22:56:45Z","timestamp":1608850605000},"page":"69","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["A Three-Stage Inter-Channel Calibration Approach for Passive Radar on Moving Platforms Exploiting the Minimum Variance Power Spectrum"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7417-6098","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Philipp","family":"Wojaczek","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Fraunhofer Institute of High-Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR, Fraunhoferstrasse 20, 53343 Wachtberg, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4694-917X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Diego","family":"Cristallini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Fraunhofer Institute of High-Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR, Fraunhoferstrasse 20, 53343 Wachtberg, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9861-3619","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniel W.","family":"O\u2019Hagan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Fraunhofer Institute of High-Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR, Fraunhoferstrasse 20, 53343 Wachtberg, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6694-7534","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fabiola","family":"Colone","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications DIET, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana, 18, 00184 Rome, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5154-8725","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giovanni Paolo","family":"Blasone","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications DIET, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana, 18, 00184 Rome, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5018-5048","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pierfrancesco","family":"Lombardo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications DIET, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana, 18, 00184 Rome, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Palmer, J., Cristallini, D., and Kuschel, H. 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