Rank reduction direction-of-arrival estimators with an improved robustness against subarray orientation errors

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1951-1955

  Elkader, Sherif Abd ^a   Gershman, Alex B ^b   Wong, Kon Max ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation; Partly calibrated arrays; Rank reduction estimator (RARE)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARRAYS; ERRORS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DIRECTION-OF-ARRIVAL (DOA) ESTIMATION; INTERSUBARRAY PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE SUBARRAYS; PARTLY CALIBRATED ARRAYS; RANK REDUCTION ESTIMATOR (RARE); SUBARRAY ORIENTATIONS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 33646022818     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.872321     Document Type: Article

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