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Due to stringent bandwidth and energy constraints, sensor observations are quantized into few-bit data individually and then transmitted to a fusion center (FC), where a generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) detector is employed to achieve target detection and maximum likelihood estimation of the target location simultaneously. In this context, we first develop a GLRT detector using one-bit quantized data which is shown to outperform the typical counting rule and the detection scheme based on the scan statistic. We further propose a GLRT detector based on adaptive multi-bit quantization, where the sensor observations are more precisely quantized, and the quantized data can be efficiently transmitted to the FC. The Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) of the estimate of target location is also derived for the GLRT detector. The simulation results show that the proposed GLRT detector with adaptive 2-bit quantization achieves much better performance than the GLRT based on one-bit quantization, at the cost of only a minor increase in communication overhead.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18092810","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,27]],"date-time":"2018-08-27T10:56:04Z","timestamp":1535367364000},"page":"2810","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Aspect-Aware Target Detection and Localization by Wireless Sensor Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7400-3509","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Li","family":"Hu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shilian","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Eryang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1247","DOI":"10.1109\/JPROC.2003.814918","article-title":"Sensor networks: evolution, opportunities, and challenges","volume":"91","author":"Chong","year":"2003","journal-title":"Proc. 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