Adaptive mitigation of platform-generated radio-frequency Interference

Described are methods and systems for mitigating radio-frequency interference (RFI) generated by a receiving platform. After downconverting a received RF signal to baseband, the RFI component in the baseband signal may be estimated using a model-based estimator (e.g., a nonlinear filter such as an extended Kalman filter) that is tuned to a statistical model of the RFI source. The estimated RFI component may then be subtracted from the baseband signal to yield a compensated baseband signal from which may be extracted the baseband information signal. This filtering technique enables a highly accurate mitigation of the RFI even when the RFI power is much smaller compared to the Gaussian channel noise.