Abstract:The heavy loss of target detection performance must be resulted if the isolated interferers can not be effectively suppressed in the non-homogeneous environment of clutter. Therefore, a new method of two stage hybrid space time adaptive processing in non-homogeneous environment is presented in this paper, in which the homogeneous clutter is firstly suppressed based on auxiliary channel processing approach by selecting auxiliary channel according to clutter’s distributing characters in the beam Doppier space and the isolated interferers is latterly mitigated based on direct dnla domain algorithm, This method has advantages of excellent target detection performance, good robust to whether small yaw exists or not, and low computation load. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate its effectiveness,