Radar and MMW Multistatic Concepts for Accurate Tracking & Dicrimination

"The goal of this project is to develop a waveform selection and signal processing approach for multistatic radar systems. The exponential growth in RF hardware and processing hardware/software has made it likely that the technology will exist to supportthese multistatic concepts. As of now, it is not possible to fully exploit these emerging trends to gain the advantages of multistatic systems while overcoming their disadvantages (grating lobes, high sidelobes). This project will investigate an approachusing simultaneous orthogonal waveforms being radiated from the multistatic systems subapertures to overcome these issues and made multistatic systems viable. Our proposed waveform/processing concept will address simultaneous missions/tasks from multiplesensors (SIMMMS). In a multistatic radar the transmit/receive aperture is divided into a number of subapertures that can be placed in various locations relative to each other. These locations can be chosen to optimize the performance of the radar in termsof some specific task. These systems can provide significantly improved tracking because of the large baseline between the various apertures. The resulting angular resolution can be orders of magnitude better than a monolithic system (single largeradar). The same angular resolution can provide improved ECCM capability. Multistatic radars have a number of independent sources of information (the various monostatic and bistatic ret