Coherent multistatic ISAR imaging

Abstract

This paper presents methods for Coherent Multistatic Radar Imaging for Non Cooperative Target Recognition (NCTR) with a network of radar sensors. Coherent Multistatic Radar Imaging is based on an extension of existing monostatic ISAR algorithms to the multistatic environment. The paper describes the ISAR processing and fusion by incoherent summation, and coherent summation, with and without overlapping observation angles. We demonstrate the proposed methods on simulated measurements.