Widely-separated MIMO vs. multistatic radar for target localization

Author

Gorji, A.A. ; Tharmarasa, R. ; Kirubarajan, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

25-30 March 2012

Firstpage

2461

Lastpage

2464

Abstract

This paper considers the localization performance of MIMO radars with widely-separated antennas. A Multiple-Hypothesis (MH) based algorithm is proposed for multiple target localization problems where targets become unobservable in certain pairs of transmitters and receivers. In addition, the performance of MIMO radars in localizing multiple-scatterer targets is compared to that of multistatic radar systems. Finally, simulation results are provided in order to demonstrate the capability of MIMO radars in localizing multiple-scatterer targets.

Keywords

MIMO radar; radar antennas; radar receivers; radar tracking; radar transmitters; target tracking; MIMO radars; multiple target localization; multiple-hypothesis based algorithm; multiple-scatterer targets; multistatic radar systems; receivers; transmitters; widely-separated MIMO; widely-separated antennas; MIMO; MIMO radar; Radar tracking; Signal to noise ratio; Target tracking; Transmitters; MH based algorithm; MIMO radars;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0045-2

Electronic_ISBN

1520-6149

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288414

Filename

6288414