Effects of mutual coupling on the performance of STAP antenna arrays

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 518-527

  Friel, Edward M ^a,b   Pasala, Krishna M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b Sverdurp Corporation   (United States)

^c University of Dayton   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINIMUM DETECTABLE VELOCITY; MUTUAL COUPLING; SIGNAL DEGRADATION; SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE-PLUS-NOISE RATIO; SPACE-TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL THEORY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

RADAR WARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033728824     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.845236     Document Type: Article

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