Implementation of a digital signal processing subsystem for a long wavelength array station

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Soriano, Melissa ^a   Navarro, Robert ^a   D'Addario, Larry ^a   Sigman, Elliott ^a   Wang, Douglas ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE ADJUSTMENT; ANALOG RECEIVERS; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; FINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE FILTER; FIRST-IN-FIRST-OUT BUFFER; FREQUENCY RANGES; LONG WAVELENGTH; MATRIX MULTIPLICATION; PHASED ARRAYS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; FIR FILTERS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; POLARIZATION; TELESCOPES;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 79955761982     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2011.5747310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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