Synthesizing wide-band sparse arrays by simulated annealing

Oceans Conference Record (IEEE)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 989-994

  Trucco, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

BEAM PATTERN; WIDE-BAND SPARSE ARRAYS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS;

EID: 0035672992     PISSN: 01977385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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