Signal processing for radio astronomical arrays

2004 Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-10

  Van Der Veen, Alle Jan ^a   Leshem, Amir ^b   Boonstra, Albert Jan ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIO INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; PHASE ARRAYS; RADIO ASTRONOMICAL ARRAYS; SPATIAL FILTERING TECHNIQUES;

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

EID: 28244495088     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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