Wideband adaptive beamforming to control time sidelobes and null depth

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5077, Issue , 2003, Pages 187-199

  Rabideau, Daniel J ^a   Parker, Peter ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive beamforming; Equalization; Range sidelobes; Space time adaptive processing; Wideband radar

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ERRORS; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0242635798     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.487325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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