Effects of parametric constraints on the CRLB in gain and phase estimation problems

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 620-623

  Wijnholds, Stefan J ^a   van der Veen, Alle Jan ^b  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calibration, Cram r Rao lower bound (CRLB); Gain estimation; Phase estimation; Sensor arrays

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE MEASUREMENT;

GAIN ESTIMATION; PHASE ESTIMATION; SENSOR ARRAYS;

SENSORS;

EID: 33749381436     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2006.875348     Document Type: Article

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