Designing nonuniform linear arrays to maximize mutual information for bearing estimation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2926-2939

  Zhu, Xiaoli ^a   Buck, John R ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEARING ESTIMATION; COMMONLY USED; DISTORTION METRICS; END-FIRE; HYDROPHONE SPACING; INNER PRODUCT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR ARRAYS; LLOYD ALGORITHM; ML ESTIMATORS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NARROW-BAND SOUND; NON-UNIFORM LINEAR ARRAYS; NONUNIFORM; NULLING; OPTIMAL PARTITIONS; PROBABILITY OF ERRORS; PROCESSING PROBLEMS; SIMULATION RESULT; SOUND SOURCE; SYMMETRIC ARRAYS; TOWED HORIZONTAL ARRAY; TOWED SYSTEM; UNIFORM ARRAY; UPPER BOUND;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ARRAY PROCESSING; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; WHITE NOISE;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL);

SEA WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SEA; SHIP; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; SHIPS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 78649548573     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3488665     Document Type: Article

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