Fundamental Limitations in Passive Time Delay Estimation Part I: Narrow-Band Systems

IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1983, Pages 472-486

  Weiss, Anthony J ^a   Weinstein, Ehud ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY;

NARROW BAND SYSTEMS; TIME DELAY ESTIMATION; ZIV-ZAKAI LOWER BOUND (ZZLB);

SIGNAL THEORY;

EID: 0020736051     PISSN: 00963518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASSP.1983.1164061     Document Type: Article

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