Flattening the side-lobes of wide-band beam patterns

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 760-762

  Trucco, Andrea ^a   Curletto, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Array weighting; Beam pattern optimization; Simulated annealing; Wide band beamforming

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ARRAY WEIGHING; SIDE-LOBES; WIDE-BAND BEAM PATTERNS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0346009245     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2003.819317     Document Type: Article

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