The square kilometre array

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1482-1496

  Dewdney, Peter E ^a   Hall, Peter J ^b   Schilizzi, Richard T ^a   Lazio, T Joseph L W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aperture synthesis; Digital correlator; Digital data transmission; Digital signal processing; Fourier imaging; Low noise amplifier; Radio astronomy; Radio telescope

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ASTROBIOLOGY; DIGITAL RADIO; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO TELESCOPES; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SURVEYS;

APERTURE SYNTHESIS; ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS; DIGITAL CORRELATOR; DIGITAL DATA TRANSMISSION; EXTRAGALACTIC ASTRONOMY; FOURIER IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 67651100821     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2021005     Document Type: Article

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