Abstract: 

A radar  network consists of transmitters and receivers distributed over a geographic area such that it is possible to view targets at different aspect

angles. Transmitters and receivers can be co-located or not. Signal processing techniques for radar networks has received considerable attention and this has spawned a wide variety of system structures and processing methods that can be employed. The same data acquired by a radar network can be processed in a number of different ways, leading to a range of performance levels. These vary from the processing of fully coherent signals to processing incoherent signals. The processing approaches can be ‘centralized’ (i.e. the detection decision is taken at a single processing unit) or ‘decentralized’ (decisions are taken at individual receivers in the radar network across all possible mono/bistatic pairs). The statistical properties

of the signals resulting from the differing signal processing approaches lead to substantial differences in their performance. This special session aims to discover the new processing techniques of distributed antenna arrays and discuss the potential applications in radar networks.

Session Chairs: 

Prof. Igal Bilik (Ben-Gurion University of th Negev, Israel), 

Prof. Xiangrong Wang (Beihang University, China), 

Prof. Tianyao Huang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China), 

Assoc. Ziwei Wang (Beihang University, China)