Minimum-noise-variance beamformer with an electromagnetic vector sensor

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 601-618

  Nehorai, Arye ^a   Ho, Kwok Chiang ^b   Tan, B T G ^c  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Beamformer; Direction of arrival; Electromagnetic; Vector sensor

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ELECTROMAGNETIC VECTOR SENSORS;

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION;

EID: 0033101817     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.747769     Document Type: Article

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