Design and implementation of near-field, wideband synthetic aperture beamformers

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 206-220

  Ahmad, Fauzia ^a   Frazer, Gordon J ^b   Kassam, Saleem A ^c   Amin, Moeness G ^a  

^a Villanova University   (United States)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; BEAMFORMING; SIGNAL SYNTHESIS; WIDEBAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE BEAMFORMERS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 2542528636     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2004.1292154     Document Type: Article

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