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However, even for a distributed coherent radar, it is difficult to coherently accumulate local observations in the searching mode if target returns in local channels are decorrelated. In order to obtain the superiority of coherent processing while overcoming the real implementation difficulties of a coherent framework, this paper studies a distributed coherent detection algorithm for fusion detection. It is utilized in detecting a target during tracking while a target is searched for in a non-coherent manner. From historic observations on target tracking, relative phase delays in different channels are predicted by a phase lock loop and then used to compensate phases for observations in the current frame. Moreover, to enhance the detection performance of distributed radar during tracking, a switching rule between phase prediction-based coherent and non-coherent processing is proposed based on their detection performance. Numerical results indicate that the switching operation can improve the detection probability during tracking, and the non-coherent operation can still provide a moderate detection performance if the phase prediction is unreliable.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16244779","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,23]],"date-time":"2024-12-23T09:13:38Z","timestamp":1734945218000},"page":"4779","update-policy":"https:\/\/linproxy.fan.workers.dev:443\/https\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Distributed Target Detection with Coherent Fusion in Tracking Based on Phase Prediction"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Aoya","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Shenghua","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Linhai","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Stimson, G. 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