Mathematical Foundations of Distributed Radar

澳大利亚面临的常规军事威胁是大型或快速移动的物体，如船只和飞机，而常规雷达系统的设计就是为了应对这种威胁。最近的全球政治变化已经改变了威胁，包括小型和缓慢移动的物体，如人、小型车辆和船只。雷达硬件的进步使得小型、低功耗设备成为可能，与部署的系统相比，这些设备的性能会降低。在这种小型设备的分散系统上进行信息集成的方法、设计合适的波形套件和巧妙的本地信号处理算法将被开发出来，以实现硬件提供的性能改进，以应对新的威胁。

Conventional military threats to Australia are large or fast moving objects such as ships and aircraft and conventional radar systems are designed to handle such threats. Recent global political shifts have changed the threats to include objects that are small and slowly moving, such as people, small vehicles and boats. Advances in radar hardware make feasible small, low-powered, devices with inherently reduced performance in comparison to deployed systems. Methods for information integration over a dispersed system of such small devices, design of suitable waveform suites and clever local signal processing algorithms will be developed to achieve the performance improvements the hardware offers, to handle the new threats.