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The application of two-dimensional (2-D) infinite impulse response (IIR) spatially-bandpass (SBP) filters as a digital beamformer for a wide spectrum of practical applications spanning wireless cognitive radio communications, doppler radar, and radio astronomy instrumentation is discussed. The paper starts with an introduction of the recently proposed 2-D SBP filter. The first application is a spectrum sensing scheme for dynamic spectrum access based cognitive radios. A 2-D IIR SBP filter is used in conjunction with a sub-Nyquist wideband signal reconstruction technique to achieve aperture-array directional spectrum sensing using sub-Nyquist sparse sampling based on the recently reported Eldar algorithm. The second application is related to wideband pulse and continuous-wave frequency modulated Doppler radar sensing. The SBP filter is integrated with a wideband radar back-end connected to an electronically-steerable aperture antenna. A a low-complexity directional localization algorithm is presented, which estimates the range and angle of a target scatterer with a signal to interference ratio improvement of 10 dB. We also present applications of 2-D IIR SBP in the fields of classification and remote sensing of unmanned aerial vehicles. Finally, a digital aperture-array wideband beamforming model using the 2-D IIR SBP filters is presented for radio telescope systems based on dense aperture arrays and time-domain beamforming. A well-known example is the study of pulsar astrophysics using a highly-directional aperture antenna system. The 2-D IIR SBP beamformer is simulated as the digital backend of the time-domain beamforming system with array signals synthesized using measured time-domain signatures from the Crab pulsar obtained from the GAVRT. The SBP filter shows a gain of 12.3 dB with an order of magnitude lower circuit complexity compared to traditional phased-array digital beamformers. To obtain comparable levels of SINR improvement, the wideband phased-array beamformers require 48-point FFTs per antenna. Assuming the optimum three real-multiplications per complex multiplication for the Gauss algorithm, it is discovered that the proposed 2-D IIR SBP beamformers are more than 97 % lower in digital multiplier complexity compared to traditional FIR phased-array FFT-beamformers.
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Madanayake, A., Randeny, T., Udayanga, N. et al. Applications of RF aperture-array spatially-bandpass 2-D IIR filters in sub-Nyquist spectrum sensing, wideband doppler radar and radio astronomy beamforming. Multidim Syst Sign Process 28, 1523–1548 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11045-016-0423-2
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