Application of redundancy calibration to phased arrays and some limitations

2011 30th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, URSIGASS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Noorishad, P ^a   Wijnholds, S J ^b   Van Ardenne, A ^b   Van Der Hulst, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ELEMENT; CORRELATED NOISE; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; SIMULATED DATA;

CALIBRATION; REDUNDANCY;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 81255132508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6051220     Document Type: Conference Paper

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