Airborne multistatic polarimetric radar modeling

Previous work developed a data model and corresponding imaging operation for multistatic polarimetric radar with stationary transmitters and receivers and moving targets. This paper extends the model to an airborne multistatic polari-metric radar scenario and considers multiple moving transmitting and receiving platforms in addition to moving targets. The formulation results in an expression for the received data that may be coherently combined across receivers, represented in a global coordinate system.