Fundamental limitations on the number of resolvable emitters using a geolocation system

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 5 II, 2007, Pages 2193-2202

  Amar, Alon ^a   Weiss, Anthony J ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Angle of arrival; Array processing; Emitter localization; Resolution capacity

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; ESTIMATION;

ANGLE OF ARRIVAL; EMITTER LOCALIZATION; GEOLOCATION SYSTEM; RESOLUTION CAPACITY;

ARRAY PROCESSING;

EID: 34247872849     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.890935     Document Type: Article

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