A practical simple geometry and gain/phase calibration technique for antenna array processing

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1963-1972

  Ng, Boon Poh ^a   Lie, Joni Polili ^a   Er, Meng Hwa ^a   Feng, Aigang ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Array calibration; Beamforming; Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY ARRAYS; ARRAY CALIBRATION; ARRAY SENSORS; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; DIRECTION-OF-ARRIVAL (DOA) ESTIMATION; DIRECTIONS OF ARRIVAL; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; ITERATIVE CALCULATION; RADIO BANDS; SIGNAL SOURCE; SIMPLE GEOMETRIES; SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS; SPECTRUM PROPERTIES;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ARRAY PROCESSING; BEAMFORMING; CALIBRATION; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS;

EID: 67949085183     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2021931     Document Type: Article

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