Response of sample covariance based MVDR beamformer to imperfect look and inhomogeneities

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 325-327

  Richmond, Christ D ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Array response mismatch; Beamformer; Calibration errors; Covariance mismatch; Inhomogeneous; MVDR; Nonstationary; Pointing errors; Power selected training; PST; Sample covariance; Tapering

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE (MVDR) BEAMFORMERS;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0032303445     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/97.735426     Document Type: Article

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