Approximate maximum likelihood estimators for array processing in multiplicative noise environments

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2506-2518

  Besson, Olivier ^a,b,c   Vincent, François ^a,b   Stoica, Petre ^a,d   Gershman, Alex B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Approximate maximum likelihood estimation; Direction finding; Inhomogeneous propagation medium; Scattered sources

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

APPROXIMATE MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; CRAMER-RAO BOUND; DIRECTION FINDING; INHOMOGENEOUS PROPAGATION MEDIUM;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0034258709     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.863054     Document Type: Article

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