A low cost radar digital beamforming concept with single receiver

Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1622-1625

  Tang, Yue ^a   Lu, Yilong ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Digital beamforming; phased array; radar system; smart antenna

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SCENARIO; BEAM-FORMING RESOLUTION; COMPUTATION POWER; DIGITAL BEAM FORMING; DIGITAL RECEIVERS; DIODE SIGNALS; ECHO SIGNALS; LOW COSTS; MICROWAVE SWITCH; MULTIPLE RECEIVERS; SIGNAL PROCESSOR; SIGNAL SELECTION; SWITCHING SPEED; SYSTEM CONCEPTS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; RADAR SYSTEMS; SMART ANTENNAS;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 84860525583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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