Waveform Diversity and Signal Processing Strategies in Multistatic Radar Systems

This chapter is organized as follows. In Section 2 we define a multistatic radar system that will be analyzed. Section 3 provides an overview of the multistatic ambiguity function. In Section 4 we relate the multistatic ambiguity function with different performance measures for multistatic radar systems. In Section 5 an optimal multistatic receiver in the Neyman-Pearson sense is presented. In Section 6 we demonstrate through several simulation examples how the multistatic ambiguity function can be used for waveform selection and development of signal processing strategies in multistatic radar systems. Finally, in Section 7 we provide concluding remarks.