Phased Arrays for Radio Astronomy, Remote Sensing, and Satellite Communications

Karl F. Warnick is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University, Utah, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Rob Maaskant is an Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology and the Eindhoven University of Technology. Marianna V. Ivashina is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. David B. Davidson is the Engineering Director of the Curtin Institute for Radio Astronomy, and also holds the Chair of Radio Astronomy Engineering, at Curtin University, Australia. Prior to this, he was a Distinguished Professor and the SA-SKA Research Chair in Engineering Electromagnetics at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, where he remains Emeritus Professor. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Brian D. Jeffs is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University, Utah.

1. Phased arrays for high-sensitivity receiver applications; 2. Active antenna receivers; 3. Antenna examples; 4. Transmitting arrays, network analysis, and pattern overlap integrals; 5. Array receiver theory and modeling; 6. Figures of merit for active receiving arrays; 7. Design and optimization of phased array antennas; 8. Numerical modeling of phased array antennas; 9. Analog front end, array elements, and receiver electronics; 10. Array signal processing, calibration, and beamforming; 11. Interferometric arrays and synthesis imaging; 12. Real time digital signal processing.