High-resolution beamforming techniques performance analysis

Abstract

Seven different beamforming techniques (including both conventional and high-resolution types) have been analyzed and compared in order to develop a quantitative relationship between resolution performance on the one hand and detection and the accuracy of bearing estimation on the other. The

techniques discussed are the Blackman-Tukey Conventional, the Wiener Conventional, the Capon

Adaptive and the Maximum Entropy Beamformers, and the Optimal, the Johnson, and the Schmidt

Eigenvector Methods. Detection performance, accuracy, and resolution of the different techniques are discussed and tabulated