Coherent detection in radar and radio signals Coherent demodulation\detection is usually done via matched filtering in RF signal processing. In radar signals, coherent integration can be done if the phases of the returns are known. In terms of coherent detection in radar signals, does it make any sense if we still use matched filtering, similarly to RF signals? Or, coherent detection means coherent integration in radar signals?

I am new to radar signal processing and trying to clarify some concepts here.

Thanks.
In the context of wireless systems, coherent detection has the definition of detection when the wireless channel is known at the receiver and thus matched filtering is possible and infact optimal at low SNR.

The signals from different antennas at the radar receiver are coherently combined using maximum ratio combining. The MRC is nothing but the matched filter.