Theoretical and experimental studies on broadband constant beamwidth beamforming for circular arrays

Oceans Conference Record (IEEE)

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1647-1653

  Yang, Yixin ^a   Sun, Chao ^b   Wan, Chunru ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCIES; HYDROPHONES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; VECTORS;

BEAMWIDTH BEAMFORMING; BROADBAND SIGNALS; CIRCULAR ARRAYS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 1542399775     PISSN: 01977385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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