Broadband nearfield beamforming using a radial beampattern transformation

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2147-2156

  Kennedy, Rodney A ^a   Abhayapala, Thushara D ^b   Ward, Darren B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Centre for Modern Technologies   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Array processing; Broadband beamforming; Nearfield beamforming

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ARRAYS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

BROADBAND NEARFIELD BEAMFORMING; RADIAL BEAMPATTERN TRANSFORMATION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0032137566     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.705426     Document Type: Article

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