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To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose a two-stage SR-STAP method for suppressing nonhomogeneous clutter in the presence of arbitrary array errors. In the first stage, utilizing the spatial-temporal coupling property of the ground clutter, a set of spatial steering vectors with array errors are well estimated by fine Doppler localization. In the second stage, firstly, in order to solve the model mismatch problem caused by array errors, we directly use these spatial steering vectors obtained in the first stage to construct the space-time dictionary, and then, the constructed dictionary and multiple measurement vectors sparse Bayesian learning (MSBL) algorithm are combined for space-time adaptive processing (STAP). The proposed SR-STAP method can exhibit superior clutter suppression performance and target detection performance in the presence of arbitrary array errors. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22010077","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,23]],"date-time":"2021-12-23T21:40:21Z","timestamp":1640295621000},"page":"77","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["A Two-Stage STAP Method Based on Fine Doppler Localization and Sparse Bayesian Learning in the Presence of Arbitrary Array Errors"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Kun","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Lab of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tong","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Lab of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jianxin","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jinming","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Lab of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Ward, J. 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