Fast and Accurate Near-Field-Far-Field Transformation by Sampling Interpolation of Plane-Polar Measurements

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 48-55

  Bucci, Ovidio M ^a   Gennarelli, Claudio ^b   Savarese, Catello ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS--FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

ANTENNA PATTERNS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM ALGORITHM; PLANE POLAR MEASUREMENTS; SAMPLING INTERPOLATION;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0026066132     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.64434     Document Type: Article

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