An asymptotic maximum likelihood for joint estimation of nominal angles and angular spreads of multiple spatially distributed sources

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1534-1538

  Tau Sieskul, Bamrung ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direction finding; Local scattering; Maximum likelihood (ML) estimator

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SPREADS; CRITICAL POINTS; DIRECTION FINDING; DISTRIBUTED SOURCES; ESTIMATION ERRORS; EXACT LIKELIHOOD FUNCTION; JOINT ESTIMATION; LOCAL SCATTERING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CRITERION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; ML ESTIMATORS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; UNKNOWN PARAMETERS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 77949696780     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2009.2040006     Document Type: Article

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