Optimum Array Processing

HARRY L. VAN TREES, ScD, is Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the C3I Center of Excellence at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. During his career, he was professor of electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and served as Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force, Chief Scientist of the Defense Communications Agency, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for C3I. He was also president of M/A-Com-Linkabit Government Systems and a cofounder of CommQuest Technologies.

"...an integrated presentation of classical and statistical array processing...develops synthesis techniques..." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2002)

• Preface. Introduction. Arrays and Spatial Filters. Synthesis of Linear Arrays and Apertures. Planar Arrays and Apertures. Characterization of Space-Time Processes. Optimum Waveform Estimation. Adaptive Beamformers. Parameter Estimation I: Maximum Likelihood. Parameter Estimation II. Detection and Other Topics. Appendix A: Matrix Operations. Appendix B: Array Processing Literature. Appendix C: Notation. Index.