ABSTRACT
If a MSRS consists of spatially separated transmitting and receiving stations or of monostatic radars with the cooperative signal reception (see Section 1.1), the maximum range and coverage estimation for such a MSRS is based on the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and coverage calculations for the bistatic radar as a “cell” of the MSRS. The coverage of a bistatic radar we define 1 as the region of space where a target with given RCS should be positioned so as the SNR at the receiver input be no less than a certain predetermined value (e.g. which is necessary for the signal detection with required probability at the allowable false alarm probability). The target is assumed to be simultaneously within Line Of Sight (LOS) to both transmitting and receiving stations [190–192]. Evidently, a monostatic radar may be considered as a particular case of a bistatic radar.
