Virtual Multistatic Illumination by Exploitation of Multipath Propagation with Coherent MIMO Radar

In this paper the first results with the coherent MIMO radar MIRA-CLE Ka are presented in which multipath propagation is exploited. With the separation of the direct-and indirect paths from and to the radar a virtual multistatic illumination can be obtained. Due to this method the amount of information can be increased and the following processing or classification can be improved or robustified.