Robust capon beamformers for wideband acoustic imaging

9th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Wang, Zhisong ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Nishida, Toshikazu ^a   Sheplak, Mark ^b  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; AEROACOUSTICS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SAMPLING;

CONSTANT BEAMWIDTH; FINITE SAMPLE SIZES; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION CAPABILITIES; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; NATURAL EXTENSION; ROBUST CAPON BEAMFORMER; STEERING VECTOR; WIDEBAND SIGNALS;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 85088759415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2003-3198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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