Moriya, A.; (2012) Tracking an air target in multistatic radar networks. Masters thesis , UCL (University College London).

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The first radars used in military scenarios to detect enemies were bistatic because the technology that would allow a transmitter and a receiver to use the same antenna had not been developed. Then, with the development of monostatic radars, there was almost no interest in the bistatic radars subject. Nowadays, due to the fact that monostatic radars alone have reached its limits in terms of performance and because of the existence of new threats, the interest in bistatic and multistatic radars should last longer. Bistatic and multistatic radars are particularly interesting in military scenarios where it is important to be able to detect and track stealth targets and also to be able to operate with minimized risks of being affected by jamming attacks. This thesis investigates how much multistatic radars can surpass stand alone monostatic radars when attempting to track a target. Simulations with different geometries and different target trajectories are performed in order to assess the tracking performance in each scenario. Tracking performance is assessed in terms of estimated position, velocity and acceleration accuracies. Different geometries include monostatic radar, netted monostatic radars, bistatic radars with target crossing and not crossing the baseline, multistatic radars with only 1 TX and many RXs, multistatic radars with many TXs and only 1 RX and multistatic radars with many TXs and RXs. Simulations are performed using real radar characteristics in order to assess whether it is possible to use navigation radars to track targets with low RCS. The research herein presented shows that it is possible to achieve a good accuracy configuring a geometry that is suitable for the requirements of a system. Also, from the results of the simulations it is possible to understand why multistatic radars can still work with acceptable accuracy if a TXs is lost/destroyed.

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