Design of frequency invariant beamformers for broadband arrays

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 855-860

  Liu, Wei ^a   Weiss, Stephan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Frequency invariant design; Multi dimensional arrays

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BROADBAND NETWORKS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SENSOR ARRAYS;

BEAM PATTERN; FREQUENCY-INVARIANT DESIGN; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 39649090519     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.907872     Document Type: Article

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