A study of the rank-ambiguity issues in direction-of-arrival estimation

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 880-887

  Tan, Kah Chye ^a  

^a DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; OBSERVABILITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSORS; SIGNAL THEORY; VECTORS;

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; PAIRWISE LINEARLY INDEPENDENT STEERING VECTORS; RANK AMBIGUITY THEORY;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0030129445     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.492541     Document Type: Article

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