OPTIMIZATION OF THE DETECTABILITY OF ARRAY RECEIVING SYSTEMS.
Robert W. Cline, W. Gregg · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1969
This report examines the problem of optimizing the detectability of array receiving systems. A 'maximum likelihood' array receiver is analyzed and a performance index (the array detectability) for the receiver is developed and related to the system parameters, array dimensionality and geometry, and to the space-time correlation properties of the incident interference field. A sensitivity analysis of system performance (array gain) to a priori information error in signal phasing (steering angle) is performed and a number of case studies of detectability optimization are examined for various array coupling geometries, and various interference spatial correlation models. (Author)