Phase-difference ambiguity resolution for a single-frequency signal in the near-field using a receiver triplet

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5920-5926

  Ballal, Tarig ^a   Bleakley, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Direction of arrival; DOA; phase difference ambiguity; TDOA; time delayestimation

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; ANALYTIC FORMULA; DOA; EMITTER LOCATION; GAUSSIAN WHITE NOISE; IDENTIFIABILITY CONDITIONS; IMPINGING SIGNALS; NEAR-FIELD; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHASE-DIFFERENCE AMBIGUITY; RECEIVER ARRAY; SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; SNR THRESHOLD; TDOA; TIME-DELAYESTIMATION;

ALGORITHMS; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WHITE NOISE;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 79953811972     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2010.2062180     Document Type: Article

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