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However, when the cluttering is nonlinear in a spatial-Doppler profile, it will cause an off-grid effect and reduce the sparse recovery performance. A meshless search using a meta-heuristic algorithm (MH) can completely eliminate the off-grid effect in theory. Therefore, genetic algorithm (GA), differential evolution (DE), particle swarm optimization (PSO), and grey wolf optimization (GWO) methods are applied to SR-STAP for selecting exact clutter atoms in this paper. The simulation results show that MH-STAP can estimate the clutter subspace more accurately than the traditional algorithm; PSO-STAP and GWO-STAP showed better clutter suppression performance in four MH-STAP methods. To search for more accurate clutter atoms, PSO and GWO are combined to improve the method\u2019s capacity for global optimization. Meanwhile, the fitness function is improved by using prior knowledge of the clutter distribution. The simulation results show that the improved PSO-GWO-STAP algorithm provides excellent clutter suppression performance, which solves the off-grid problem better than does single MH-STAP.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23239444","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,27]],"date-time":"2023-11-27T07:56:10Z","timestamp":1701071770000},"page":"9444","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Meshless Search SR-STAP for Airborne Radar Based on Meta-Heuristic Algorithms"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Yunfei","family":"Hou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yingnan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wenzhu","family":"Gui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Di","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5","DOI":"10.1049\/ecej:19990102","article-title":"Introduction to space-time adaptive processing","volume":"11","author":"Klemm","year":"1999","journal-title":"Electron. 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