Performance analysis of spatial filtering of RF interference in radio astronomy

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 896-910

  Van der Tol, Sebastiaan ^a   Van der Veen, Alle Jan ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Algorithm performance; Eigenvalues; Interference cancellation; Radio astronomy; RF interference; Spatial filtering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; DIGITAL FILTERS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERFORMANCE; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RADIO TELESCOPES; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION; RF INTERFERENCE; SPATIAL FILTERING;

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

EID: 14844351029     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2004.842177     Document Type: Article

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