Radar systems considerations for phased array aperture design using conformal transformations on Riemannian manifolds

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2239-2246

  Alexopoulos, Aris ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Number of beams; Riemann manifolds; Search function time; Static and rotating phased arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR SYSTEMS; TENSORS;

CONFORMAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PHASED ARRAY APERTURE DESIGN; RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 34548157733     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.902013     Document Type: Article

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