Maneuvering target tracking based on multistatic system Doppler measurements

The bistatic Doppler measurements are introduced to multistatic target tracking. A complete velocity vector may be deduced by more than two Doppler measurements, which may be more accurate than other measurements in a multistatic system. A sequential velocity vector method in maneuvering interactive multimode method (IMM) filtering and data fusion is introduced in this paper. These Doppler measurements are considered to come from another sensor, and the farther data processing of this sensor produces the velocity measurements. Monte Carlo simulation is introduced to compare its performance with the traditional one. The result demonstrates that it has better performance in maneuvering target tracking, and has a nice association quality under smaller calculation capacity than JPDA.