Design of frequency invariant beamformer without temporal filtering

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 798-802

  Liu, Wei ^a   McLernon, Des C ^b   Ghogho, Mounir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broadband arrays; Fourier transform; Frequency invariant beamforming; Temporal filtering

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PROCESSING; BEAMFORMING; DESIGN; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BEAM FORMERS; BROADBAND ARRAYS; FREQUENCY INVARIANT BEAMFORMERS; FREQUENCY INVARIANT BEAMFORMING; FREQUENCY INVARIANTS; NOVEL METHODS; OFF-BORESIGHT; STEERING ANGLES; TEMPORAL FILTERING;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 60549084913     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2008.2008557     Document Type: Article

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