A low-complexity MVDR beamformer for use with short observationtimes

  • Authors:
  • D.N. Swingler

  • Affiliations:
  • St. Mary's Univ., Halifax, NS

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

It is demonstrated, via simulation examples, that the steered, minimum-variance, subarray beamformer is a simple, viable, and computationally efficient approach to partially adaptive beamforming, with the additional advantage that it is available for use with short observation intervals where time is traded for bandwidth. A quadratically constrained version is also examined