by J.E. Hudson
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 1981
Paper: 978-0-86341-247-9 | eISBN: 978-1-84919-374-0

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Adaptive arrays are a radical departure from conventional thinking in antenna design, offering substantial improvements in performance over fixed pattern antennas in environments that include severe interference and jamming. They achieve this because they are designed to steer nulls automatically at noise sources of unknown or variable direction and generally to modify their beampatterns to optimise performance. Adaptive array processing is applicable in most systems that exploit wave propagation; typical uses being radar, active and passive sonar, radio communication links, and radio monitoring.