Editing Multistatic radar (section)

=== Spatio-temporal synchronization ===

To deduce the range or velocity of a target relative to a multistatic system, knowledge of the spatial location of transmitters and receivers is required. A shared time and frequency standard also must be maintained if the receiver has no direct line of sight of the transmitter.  As in bistatic radar, without this knowledge there would be inaccuracy in the information reported by the radar.  For systems exploiting data fusion before detection, there is a need for accurate time and or phase synchronisation of the different receivers.  For plot level fusion, time tagging using a standard GPS clock (or similar) is more than sufficient.