Potential Applications of Acoustic Matched Filters to Air-Traffic Control Systems

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn MTT-21, Issue 4, 1973, Pages 288-300

  Grant, Peter M ^a   Collins, Jeffrey H ^a   Darby, Barry J ^a   Morgan, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC MATCHED FILTERS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0015615311     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.1973.1127980     Document Type: Article

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