Beamforming: A Versatile Approach to Spatial Filtering

IEEE ASSP Magazine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 4-24

  Van Veen, Barry D ^a   Buckley, Kevin M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS -- ARRAYS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BEAMFORMING; SIGNAL RECEPTION; SPATIAL FILTERING;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 0023985457     PISSN: 07407467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/53.665     Document Type: Article

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