Closed-form direction finding and polarization estimation with arbitrarily spaced electromagnetic vector-sensors at unknown locations

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 671-681

  Wong, Kainam Thomas ^a,b   Zoltowski, Michael D ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR; RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS; RADIO NAVIGATION; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC VECTOR SENSORS; INTELLIGENT SENSORS; POLARIZED ANTENNA ARRAY; POYNTING VECTOR; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0034187396     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.855485     Document Type: Article

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