Closed-form formulae for time-difference-of-arrival estimation

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2614-2620

  So, Hing Cheung ^a   Chan, Yiu Tong ^b   Chan, Frankie Kit Wing ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Optimum processing; Source localization; Time delay estimation

Indexed keywords

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; TIME DELAY; WHITE NOISE;

OPTIMUM PROCESSING; SOURCE LOCALIZATION; TIME DELAY ESTIMATION; TIME-DIFFERENCE-OF-ARRIVAL (TDOA);

SENSOR ARRAYS;

EID: 44849109527     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.914342     Document Type: Article

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