CRB analysis of the impact of unknown receiver noise on phased array calibration

2006 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop Proceedings, SAM 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 185-189

  Van Der Toi, Sebastiaan ^a   Wijnholds, Stefan J ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; AUTOCORRELATION; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; DATA ACQUISITION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

CALLED APERTURE SYNTHESIS; IMAGING ALGORITHMS; RECEIVER NOISE;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 34250726439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAM.2006.1677184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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