Application of robust capon beamforming to radio astronomical imaging

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn IV, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Van Der Toi, Sebastiaan ^a   Van Der Veen, Alle Jan ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELESCOPES; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

CAPON BEAMFORMING; FOURIER-BASED IMAGES; RADIO ASTRONOMICAL IMAGING; ROBUST CAPON BEAMFORMER (RCB);

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646755884     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1416202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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