Accession Number:

ADA247061

Title:

Hyperbolic Transforms in Array Processing

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. 1 Mar 1989-28 Feb 1991,

Corporate Author:

CORNELL UNIV ITHACA NY SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Personal Author(s):

• Steinhardt, Allan O.

Report Date:

1991-02-28

Pagination or Media Count:

6.0

Abstract:

The subject of the research is detection and estimation employing an array of sensors. Of particular concern is efficient and numerically reliable computational strategies for implementing prevalent detectionestimation procedures. A number of important array processing problems lead to a differencing of matrix outer products. This leads to potential ill-conditioning when implemented explicitly. The avoidance of outer products, at the expense of extra operations, has long been a crusade of sorts in the numerical analysis community Golub. One can do without outer products by means of orthogonal, or for complex data unitary, transforms in the usual case where a sum of outer products arise. Typical transforms that have been found to be particularly useful are Givens, Jacobi, and Householder transforms. The idea is to transform the data into sparse form while preserving its pertinent statistics usually the sample covariance matrix. This research concerns generalizing this trick to the case of a difference of outer products by means of hyperbolic, rather than orthogonal transforms.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTATIONS
• DETECTION
• DETECTORS
• STRATEGY
• COMMUNITIES
• PROCESSING
• MATRICES(MATHEMATICS)
• NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
• ARRAYS
• ESTIMATES
• COSTS
• RELIABILITY
• EXTERNAL
• COVARIANCE
• AVOIDANCE

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE