Accession Number:

ADA066859

Title:

A Nonmathematical Explanation of Adaptive Beamforming.

Descriptive Note:

Technical note,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL UNDERSEA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER SAN DIEGO CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• Goode,Burwell

Report Date:

1972-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

19.0

Abstract:

Optimum array processing, adaptive processing, and adaptive beamforming are terms which have been mentioned in the sonar literature with increasing frequency over the past decade. Are these three terms synonymous. The equations which describe the behavior of this type of signal processing can be long and involved. Stripped of the mathematical details, what are the underlying principles of optimum array processing, adaptive processing and adaptive beamforming This paper presents answers to these questions without matrix algebra. Author

Descriptors:

• *SIGNAL PROCESSING
• *BEAM FORMING
• *SONAR ARRAYS
• ALGORITHMS
• PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
• SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO
• GAUSSIAN NOISE
• PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS
• WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS
• ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS
• FALSE SIGNALS
• STATISTICAL DECISION THEORY

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability
• Acoustic Detection and Detectors

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE