Receivers placement for UAV localization in a surveillance area

International audience; Ensuring security of sensitive areas from unmanned aerial vehicles threats has become a major issue. In this context, multistatic radars present significant advantages over monostatic radars due to exploitation of spatial diversity and improved target detectability. In that perspective, sensors placement has an important impact in target detection or localization performance. In this paper, we propose an empirical method to place receivers in a multistatic radar network in order to cover an area of interest representing a sensitive site. The performance is measured with localization error estimation for different numbers of receivers and different target positions.