A novel scheme to achieve three-dimensional (3D) target location in bistatic radar systems is evaluated. The\r\nproposed scheme develops the additional information of the bistatic radar, that is the transmit angles, to estimate\r\nthe 3D coordinates of the targets by using multiple-input multiple-output techniques with a uniform circular array\r\non transmit and a uniform linear array on receive. The transmit azimuth, transmit elevation angles and receive cone\r\nangle of the targets are first extracted from the receive data and the 3D coordinates are then calculated on the\r\nbasis of these angles. The geometric dilution of precision which is based on the root Cramer-Rao bound of the\r\nangles, is derived to evaluate the performance bound of the proposed scheme. Further, an ESPRIT based algorithm\r\nis developed to estimate the 3D coordinates of the targets. The advantages of this scheme are that the hardware of\r\nthe receive array is reduced and the 3D coordinates of the targets can be estimated in the absence of the range\r\ninformation in bistatic radar. Simulations and analysis show that the proposed scheme has potential to achieve\r\ngood performance with low-frequency radar.
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