Design of a rectangular frequency invariant beamformer with a full azimuth angle coverage

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 579-582

  Liu, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broadband arrays; Frequency invariant beam former; Rectangular arrays; Tapped delay lines

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH ANGLES; BEAM FORMERS; BROADBAND ARRAYS; FREQUENCY INVARIANT; NOVEL DESIGN; RECTANGULAR ARRAYS; TAPPED DELAY LINE; TEMPORAL PROCESSING; UNIQUE FEATURES;

BEAMFORMING;

DESIGN;

EID: 84863745824     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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