Synthesis of Sum and Difference Patterns Possessing Common Nulls for Monopulse Bearing Estimation with Line Arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 25-37

  Zoltowski, Michael D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE;

COMMON NULLS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (ML) PROCEDURE; MONOPULSE BEARING ESTIMATOR; SIDELOBE LEVELS; SUM/DIFFERENCE PATTERNS SYNTHESIS; TARGET BEARING;

RADAR;

EID: 0026765585     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.123350     Document Type: Article

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