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Due to the limited backhaul, each radar cannot report the high-dimensional data of a multi-aspect angle MD signature to the fusion center. Instead, at each radar, the dimensionality of the MD signature is reduced by using the LDA algorithm and the dimensionally-reduced MD signature can be collected at the data fusion center. To further reduce the burden of backhaul, we also propose the softmax processing method in which the distances of the sensed MD signatures from the centers of clusters for all motion candidates are computed at each radar. The output of the softmax process at each radar is quantized through the pyramid vector quantization with a finite number of bits and is reported to the data fusion center. To improve the classification performance at the fusion center, the channel resources of the backhaul are adaptively allocated based on the classification separability at each radar. 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