Vessel Target Monitoring with Bistatic Compact HF Surface Wave Radar

Compared with transmit/receive (T/R) monostatic High-frequency surface wave radar (HFSWR), the T-R bistatic HFSWR has the advantages of flexibility, receiver concealment and large coverage because of the separation between the radar transmitter and receiver locations. In this paper, a target monitoring method with bistatic compact HFSWR was proposed. The results of a target detection experiment using T-R bistatic compact HFSWR conducted in 2015 were presented, and the validity of the method and the tracing results were verified by using synchronous automatic identification system (AIS) data.