Receiver array calibration using disparate sources

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 496-505

  Solomon, Ishan Samjeva Daniel ^a   Gray, Douglas A ^b,c   Abramovich, Yuri I ^c,d   Andersoni, Stuart J ^b  

^a The Levels 5095 ^*  (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR ANTENNAS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ARRAY CALIBRATION; CRAMER-RAO BOUND; JINDALEE METEORS; OVER THE HORIZON RADAR;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0032672348     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.768785     Document Type: Article

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