Detection and direction finding performance of hybrid bistatic radar

Author

Du, Chaoran ; Thompson, John S. ; Petillot, Yvan R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

12-16 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The conventional phased-array radar provides coherent processing gain while the MIMO radar exploits spatial diversity gain to improve the system performance. We investigate a hybrid bistatic radar combining these two configurations to take advantage of both gains. The probability of detection of the hybrid system is derived, and the CRB and the MSE of the maximum likelihood estimation for both angle of departure and angle of arrival are evaluated to assess the direction finding performance.

Keywords

maximum likelihood estimation; object detection; phased array radar; probability; radar signal processing; radionavigation; MIMO radar; coherent processing gain; direction finding; hybrid bistatic radar; maximum likelihood estimation; phased-array radar; probability; radar detection; spatial diversity gain; Bistatic radar; Directive antennas; Diversity methods; Fading; MIMO; Object detection; Performance gain; Radar antennas; Radar detection; Transmitting antennas; CRB; MIMO; MSE; coherent processing gain; direction finding; phased-array radar; spatial diversity; target detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference - Surveillance for a Safer World, 2009. RADAR. International

Conference_Location

Bordeaux

Print_ISBN

978-2-912328-55-7

Type

conf

Filename

5438487